Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a flexible, cross-platform editor that can be transformed into a full-blown IDE for most any language or workflow. Over the past few years, it has exploded in ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

From simple timers and benchmarking modules to sophisticated stats-based frameworks, look to these tools for insight into the performance of your Python program. Every programming language has two ...