In Python, you can define functions with optional arguments — that is, arguments that you don’t need to state explicitly afterwards — by providing a default value.

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

Python 3.11 will bear the fruits of CPython's multi-year effort to make Python a faster programming language.

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Python lets you set default values for function arguments, which is super convenient. But when those default values are mutable (like lists or dictionaries), you're walking into a sneaky bug trap.

Azure Functions, Microsoft's take on cloud-hosted, serverless, event-driven computing, now officially supports the Python programming language. The general availability of Python support follows a ...

Positron is Posit's new, free IDE for data science. Users can work with Python and R. It explicitly does not replace RStudio.