From simple timers and benchmarking ... and speed of execution. Python has always favored writing fast versus running fast. Although Python code is almost always fast enough for the task ...

Python users have long addressed this problem by performing end runs around it. Want faster math? Use a math library like NumPy or Numba, or compile your code to ... the years, a simple answer ...

Improve your Python testing even more. In my last two articles, I introduced pytest, a library for testing Python code (see "Testing ... in which each line is reversed: def reverse_lines(f): return ...