It refers to accessing a subset of the list or only a section of it for a particular operation and leaving the original list untouched. Python’s slicing operator requires 3 parameters, of which 2 are ...

Here’s a look back at the year in Python. In the biggest news of the year, the core Python development ... by generating machine code for certain operations at runtime. Right now, the speedup ...

The urgency to find a long-term solution to the issue is growing, notably as core ... operations that pool their results over time. C extensions aren’t bound by the GIL, so many libraries for ...

Saying that it was finally time for the community to bid a “fond but firm farewell to Python 2”, core developer Benjamin ... Python 2 code will remain in operation for years or even decades ...