Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...

Learn how to test your SEO theories using Python. Discover the steps required to pre-test search engine rank factors and validate implementation sitewide. When working on sites with traffic, there is ...

Over the last month, Google has announced a number of advancements to how they will be measuring user experience through key speed and performance metrics. Coincidentally, I have been working on ...

Learn how Python's dictionary data structure works as a powerful and versatile way to store and retrieve objects and data in your applications. Programming languages all come with a variety of data ...

Once you know how to add and use a Python module, you will greatly extend the capabilities of the language. A Python module is an external class or set of functions that exist outside the main file of ...

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Why is your Python app so slow? Find out by using Python’s built-in profiler to locate bottlenecks in your Python code Python may not be the fastest language around, but it is often fast enough. And ...

Every year, IEEE Spectrum produces a list of the most popular programming languages from the past 12 months. Consistently, Python leads the rankings. In part, this is because Python is a very ...

I recently facilitated a workshop for high school physics teachers in South Africa (two workshops actually---one in Johannesburg and one in Cape Town). The goal of the workshop was to introduce ...