Python’s development team chose defaults that reflect the most common real-world scenarios. But if you do need to tweak the way garbage collection works, you can use Python’s gc module .

In Python 2.x, names outside the local scope are wholly inaccessible except by passing them in, unless they happen to be in the global scope. I have a class that has a couple of read-only/constant ...

An initiative to remove outdated and unmaintained modules from Python’s standard library has been approved as Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 594.The modules being pruned are all antiquated ...

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 ...

You might be wondering what a Python “package” is, and how it relates to the Python module. Essentially, a package is a group of modules with an __init__.py fie that ties them all together.