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Wherein I Make an Account of My Whereabouts
This is an intermission from our regular three-act Python play.

Benchmarking Python and Rust Async Web Server Performance
Benchmarks showing how Python’s Blacksheep and Uvicorn stack up to a Rust solution using Axum and Tokio.

Python Virtual Environments: Video Tutorial
This video shows you how to create virtual environments in Mac/Linux/Windows. We also include a demo of a new feature in VS Code that works great with them, so you don’t have to set up the interpreter.
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Learn Python: Tutorials from Beginner to Expert
Python, currently the most popular programming language, is a free, open-source, general-purpose language. If you’re looking to learn Python, we have a ton of articles for you! What we’ll do in this article is organize these resources for you, since some are more appropriate for beginners to the Python language

Python Classes Zero to Expert: A Tutorial with Exercises
Although it may not appear that way at first because of how well Python objects are integrated into the language, Python is a highly object-oriented language. We won’t stop to prove that yet, but we will toward the end of the article. Instead, because this article focuses on the needs

Pandas Examples and Review Questions to Make You an Expert
Pandas is a hugely popular tool for data analysis and machine learning. It builds on the strengths and speed of Numpy to allow for mixed column types in a two-dimensional DataFrame that is indexable by column or row. As popular as it is, Pandas offers so many different ways to

NumPy Examples — Practice Questions Make You an Expert
Have you learned some NumPy, but now your learning has stalled because you don’t have any practice questions or exercises to review what you’ve learned? This practice set of forty-five NumPy examples features NumPy questions in varying degrees of difficulty. Some are very common examples of NumPy arrays, others get

SymPy: Solving Math Equations in Python and Jupyter
SymPy is a Python library for symbolic mathematics. It’s free and open source, and because it’s written entirely in Python, it’s easy to install and use. Symbolic math software tools, also called Computer Algebra Systems (CAS), allow you to work with mathematical equations more or less as you would on

How to Work With Google Sheets In Python and Pandas
Working with spreadsheets in Python on your local machine is relatively simple. For example, Pandas can open a spreadsheet into a DataFrame using read_excel. To do this, Pandas relies on another package for reading and writing spreadsheets, openpyxl. Once you’ve installed this package using your favorite package manager, the process