Improve your Python testing even more. In my last two articles, I introduced pytest, a library for testing Python code (see "Testing Your Code with Python's pytest" Part I and Part II). pytest has ...

Don't test your code? pytest removes any excuses. Software developers don't just write software; they also use software. So, they're the first to recognize, and understand, that software is complex ...

Many engineers write code to automate instruments and collect data. While you can use commercially available programming languages, you can also use open-source software tools to write your automation ...

The new extension for Visual Studio Code aims to end the previous fragmentation and ensure a uniform workflow with Python environments.

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

If you want to write Python code that takes advantage of the language's newest and most powerful features, here are four areas to explore. Although Python had its 30-year anniversary in 2021, the ...

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a flexible, cross-platform editor that can be transformed into a full-blown IDE for most any language or workflow. Over the past few years, it has exploded in ...