Functions that rely on something outside the function itself (e.g., a network call, or a read from disk) are harder to memoize, though it can still be done.

Azure Functions, Microsoft's take on cloud-hosted, serverless, event-driven computing, now officially supports the Python programming language. The general availability of Python support follows a ...

Python is a wonderful language for programming beginners, and powerful enough to explore multiple areas of data, machine learning, artificial intelligence and other advanced computer science concepts.