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Origins of Python's “Functional” Features (2009)
I have never considered Python to be heavily influenced by functional languages, no matter what people say or think. I was much more familia...
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Why Python's integer division floors (2010)
I was asked (again) today to explain why integer division in Python returns the floor of the result instead of truncating towards zero like...