Quiz: Exploring Python T-Strings

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 10 QuestionsBy Christopher Trudeau Share Ready to brush up on Python’s powerful string formatting tools? This quiz walks you through the essential techniques, including f-strings, C-style formatting, and str.format(). You’ll also get hands-on with a newer feature in Python 3.14: t-strings. The quiz contains 10 questions and there is no time limit. You’ll get 1 point for each correct answer. At the end of the quiz, you’ll receive a total score. The maximum score is 100%. Good […]

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Quiz: Profiling Performance in Python

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 7 QuestionsBy Negar Vahid Share Ready to level up your Python code optimization skills? In this quiz, you’ll revisit key concepts about profiling, benchmarking, and diagnosing performance bottlenecks. You’ll practice with tools like cProfile and timeit, and see how deterministic and statistical profilers differ. Brush up on the profiling workflow and see how to spot hotspots efficiently in your programs. Need a refresher? Check out the Profiling Performance in Python for detailed guidance. The quiz contains 7 […]

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Quiz: Python Annotations

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 9 QuestionsBy Bartosz Zaczyński Share In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of lazy annotations introduced in Python 3.14. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how they improve performance, address forward reference issues, and support both static type checking and runtime processing. The quiz contains 9 questions and there is no time limit. You’ll get 1 point for each correct answer. At the end of the quiz, you’ll receive a total score. The maximum score is […]

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Python 3.14 Preview: Lazy Annotations

Recent Python releases have introduced several small improvements to the type hinting system, but Python 3.14 brings a single major change: lazy annotations. This change delays annotation evaluation until explicitly requested, improving performance and resolving issues with forward references. Library maintainers might need to adapt, but for regular Python users, this change promises a simpler and faster development experience. Explore how lazy annotations in Python 3.14 streamline your development process, offering both performance benefits and enhanced code clarity. If you’re […]

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Quiz: Python Skill Test

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 12 QuestionsBy Martin Breuss Share 🐍 How Strong Are Your Python Skills? 🚀 This quick quiz gives you a snapshot of where you stand, whether you’re just starting out with Python or have years of coding under your belt. Test your Python skill by answering questions ranging from fundamentals to more advanced challenges. Each question is designed to test your understanding and maybe even teach you something new. Tip: Read the Explanation for each answer and follow […]

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Profiling Performance in Python

Do you want to optimize the performance of your Python program to make it run faster or consume less memory? Before diving into any performance tuning, you should strongly consider using a technique called software profiling. It can help you decide whether optimizing the code is necessary and, if so, which parts of the code you should focus on. Sometimes, the return on investment in performance optimizations just isn’t worth the effort. If you only run your code once or […]

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Crescent library brings privacy to digital identity systems

Digital identities, the electronic credentials embedded in phone wallets, workplace logins, and other apps, are becoming ubiquitous. While they offer unprecedented convenience, they also create new privacy risks, particularly around tracking and surveillance.  One of these risks is linkability, the ability to associate one or more uses of a credential to a specific person. Currently, when people use their mobile driver’s license or log into various apps,  

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Quiz: How to Write Docstrings in Python

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 7 QuestionsBy Philipp Acsany Share Want to get comfortable writing and using Python docstrings? This quiz helps you revisit best practices, standard conventions, and common tools. You’ll review the basics of docstring syntax, how to read them at runtime, and different formatting styles. For more details, check out the tutorial How to Write Docstrings in Python. The quiz contains 7 questions and there is no time limit. You’ll get 1 point for each correct answer. At the […]

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How to Write Docstrings in Python

Writing clear, consistent docstrings in Python helps others understand your code’s purpose, parameters, and outputs. In this guide on how to write docstrings in Python, you’ll learn about best practices, standard formats, and common pitfalls to avoid, ensuring your documentation is accessible to users and tools alike. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll understand that: Docstrings are strings used to document your Python code and can be accessed at runtime. Python comments and docstrings have important differences. One-line and […]

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Applicability vs. job displacement: further notes on our recent research on AI and occupations

Recently, we released a paper (Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI) that studied what occupations might find AI chatbots useful, and to what degree. The paper sparked significant discussion, which is no surprise since people care deeply about the future of AI and jobs–that’s part of why we think it’s important  

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