In Python, the mere act of making a function call incurs a relatively large amount of overhead. If some function is called repeatedly in a tight loop, even if it isn’t a long-running function ...

The Timeit module attempts to perform something like actual benchmarking on Python code. The timeit.timeit function takes a code snippet, runs it many times (the default is 1 million passes), ...

The new update to the VS Code Python extension also improves Pylance functionality, specifically related to how it displays signature help when a developer invokes a function with multiple overrides. ...

A function can be an LLM AI prompt, native code or a combination of both. For one example, a summarization skill could use LLM AI prompts to generate summaries of text or speech. The Semantic Kernel ...