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For context, this is happening when I try to do my own cast of a chunked MapArray. I have to iterate through the chunks and change slightly the underlying value array, and this happens. Tested with ...

Compiled regular expressions still performed comparatively well in Python, though. This method processed the 100,000 lines in 165 ms, about two times faster than string primitives in Python.

Alex, I’ll take “Why you shouldn’t use the ‘is’ operator to check for equivalence in Python” for $100. The ‘is’ operator checks to see if the underlying objects are one and the same.

The Python array is designed to emulate the behavior of an array in C, and it’s meant chiefly to allow Python to work with C arrays. The array type is useful in those cases, but in almost every ...

However, it could be mapped to a key in a dictionary, since Python dictionary keys can be any string. Booleans in TOML use JSON rendering. One example is using JSON’s true and false rather than ...