Programming Languages, Python, Software Development

Only very rarely does Python add a new standard data type. Python 3.15, when it’s released later this year, will come with one—an immutable dictionary, frozendict. Dictionaries in Python correspond to hashmaps in Java. They are a way to associate keys with values. The Python dict, as it’s called, is tremendously powerful and versatile. In…

When you import a module in Python, the module’s code must be evaluated completely before the program can proceed. For most modules, this isn’t an issue. But if a module has a long and involved startup process, it’s going to slow down the rest of your program at the point where it’s imported. Python developers…