Python remains one of the most widely used programming languages in web development, data analysis, automation, and artificial intelligence. As its usage grows, coding tools are also changing. In 2026 ...

Which language has the best loops? See for yourself, with our side-by-side (loop-for-loop) Python vs. Kotlin showdown. Find more stories in this week’s report.

In today’s data-rich environment, business are always looking for a way to capitalize on available data for new insights and increased efficiencies. Given the escalating volumes of data and the ...

While we have the Python built-in function sum() which sums the elements of a sequence (provided the elements of the sequence are all of numeric type), it’s instructive to see how we can do this in a ...

Abstract: List comprehensions are a Pythonic functional construct allowing developers to express in a concise way loops to build and manipulate lists. Previous studies point to a gain in speed when ...

$ ./python -m timeit -r11 -unsec -s 'from a import data, msum' 'sum(data)' 500000 loops, best of 11: 963 nsec per loop $ ./python -m timeit -r11 -unsec -s 'from a import data, msum' 'msum(data)' ...

But in many cases, it doesn’t have to be an either/or proposition. Properly optimized, Python applications can run with surprising speed—perhaps not as fast as Java or C, but fast enough for web ...

Dr. Lindsay K. Mattock for the the SLIS 5020 Computing Foundations course. Definitions and explanations in this lab are adapted from Kenneth Leroy Busbee and Dave Braunschweig, Programming ...