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Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction releases.

Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction releases.

Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction releases.

And now the Orange-based doctor is on the royal radar.

Python, at least in the CPython reference implementation, is not a particularly speedy language. That is not at all surprising to anyone who has used it—the language is optimized for understandability and development speed, instead. There have been lots of efforts over the years to speed up various parts of the interpreter, compiler, and virtual-machine bytecode execution, though no comprehensive overhaul has been merged into CPython. An interesting new proposal could perhaps change that, t...

A slew of obsolete modules are slated to be dropped from Python, a possible prelude to a process for keeping the standard library cleaner.

A slew of obsolete modules are slated to be dropped from Python, a possible prelude to a process for keeping the standard library cleaner.

A slew of obsolete modules are slated to be dropped from Python, a possible prelude to a process for keeping the standard library cleaner.

An initiative to remove outdated and unmaintained modules from Python’s standard library has been approved as Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 594. The modules being pruned are all antiquated, unmaintained, replaced by other modules, or some combination of the above. There is little chance a modern Python developer will need to rewrite existing apps as a

Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)