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 ...
Memoization of function return values is a very common optimization technique. Even the standard Python 3 library provides multiple facilities for it, e.g., functools.cached_property and functools.lru ...
Why are some things in Python so damn easy? It's like evil magic. I've always heard that writing in Lisp is some type of mystical experience. Like when you stumble upon the power of macros and ...