Scientists unearth a ‘petrified aquarium’ of 62-million-year-old fish fossils

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from ...
Nature

Python, the movie! The programming language’s origin story comes to the silver screen

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...
GitHub

cwacek/python-jsonschema-objects

{ "title": "Example Schema", "type": "object", "properties": { "firstName": { "type": "string" }, "lastName": { "type": "string" }, "age": { "description": "Age in ...
InfoWorld

The best Python libraries for parallel processing

Python does include another native way to run a workload across multiple CPUs. The multiprocessing module spins up multiple copies of the Python interpreter, each on a separate core, and provides ...
InfoWorld

10 tips for speeding up Python programs

But in many cases, it doesn’t have to be an either/or proposition. Properly optimized, Python applications can run with surprising speed—perhaps not as fast as Java or C, but fast enough for web ...
TheServerSide

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

What is JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)? JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a text-based, human-readable data interchange format used to exchange data between web clients and web servers. The ...