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 ...

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

We built an instrument-control library using object-oriented programming, with each instrument forming an individual object. These objects are represented by classes whose member functions in this ...

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