Testing functions isn't hard, but how do you test user input and output? In my last article, I started looking at "pytest", a framework for testing Python programs that's really changed the way I look ...

Python trades runtime speed for programmer convenience, and most of the time it’s a good tradeoff. One doesn’t typically need the raw speed of C for most workaday applications. And when you need to ...

Azure Functions, Microsoft's take on cloud-hosted, serverless, event-driven computing, now officially supports the Python programming language. The general availability of Python support follows a ...

Many engineers write code to automate instruments and collect data. While you can use commercially available programming languages, you can also use open-source software tools to write your automation ...

If you want to write Python code that takes advantage of the language's newest and most powerful features, here are four areas to explore. Although Python had its 30-year anniversary in 2021, the ...