Python arrays are powerful, but they can confuse programmers familiar with other languages. In this follow-on to our first look at Python arrays we examine some of the problems of working with lists ...

Arrays in Python work reasonably well but compared to Matlab or Octave there are a lot of missing features. There is an array module that provides something more suited to numerical arrays but why ...

Slicing bytes copies. On a small payload nobody notices, but slice a large packet or image buffer in a loop and the copies ...

Python is convenient and flexible, yet notably slower than other languages for raw computational speed. The Python ecosystem has compensated with tools that make crunching numbers at scale in Python ...

Something fascinating happened in the world of scientific publishing last week: The prestigious journal Nature featured an overview of a 15-year-old programming library for the language Python. The ...