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The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental ...

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It should come as no surprise that if we have a sequence of objects, we often wish to see if an element is in the sequence (list, tuple, or string). Sometimes we also want to find the index of the ...

Here we make explicit the connection between subscript notation in mathematics and indices in Python. In mathematics: Say we have a collection of objects X. We can refer to individual elements of the ...

The presence of a \ in a string will produce an error in python 3.13, and a warning in python 3.12, see https://adamj.eu/tech/2022/11/04/why-does-python ...

Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime numbers, awing mathematicians. Simple, yes, but ...