Take advantage of caching and the lru_cache decorator to relieve your Python functions from repetitive heavy lifting.

In Python, the mere act of making a function call incurs a relatively large amount of overhead. If some function is called repeatedly in a tight loop, even if it isn’t a long-running function ...

Often, Python functions ask for or return Python sequence objects, such as tuples or lists. These objects don't have directly corresponding types in C, but Python provides functions that allow you to ...

Try int ("312.17635"), what do you get? Some commonly used built-in functions in data analysis There are a number of functions built into the Python interpreter. We introduce some commonly used ...

I’ve been hacking on that PD stack, and now I’m slowly reformatting it from a bundle of functions into object-based code – Python makes that a breeze. Remember the Sony Vaio board?