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Spiffy and convenient as Python is, most everyone who uses the language knows it’s comparatively creaky—orders of magnitude slower than C, Java, or JavaScript for CPU-intensive work. But several ...

Bloomberg’s Python Infrastructure team supports the more than 3,000 Bloomberg engineers who write Python code. The team provides critical infrastructure to ensure that every one of our developers has ...

Better error messages, support for Linux profiling tools, and many improvements to Python's type hinting have just landed. Let's take a look. The Python programming ...