Tag Archives: Python Software

In previous articles on this blog, we’ve discussed Python tuples and lists. Today we’ll be talking about another useful Python data type: dictionaries. Understanding Python Dictionaries Unlike lists and tuples, which are both sequence types, a Python dictionary is a mapping object which is also mutable. Objects which...

In our last article, we discussed some of the alternative runtimes available for Python and the potential benefits of using them. Of the many we mentioned, we focused mostly on Pyston and PyPy. But there’s a question we left unanswered: Why did Dropbox pull the plug on Pyston after less than three years...

Much of Python’s success as a language—including it’s widespread adoption, extensive software ecosystem, and ease of use—is due to the robust design of the language’s official interpreter which actually implements the functions of the language.. This implementation is called “CPython” because it is written in C.  Python’s syntax borrows heavily from C and some Python...

From smoothly automating away hours of IT drudgery to providing configuration management of machines on site or in the cloud, Ansible is a popular platform for modern software deployments. At the end of our two-part series on OpenStack, we briefly mentioned that Ansible is one of the technologies that can be used to...