9 videos • 9 essays
755 views • 35 likes • 2021-05-31
In this video, we find out the internals of "is" operator in Python. We go through the CPython source code and answer ho...
716 views • 21 likes • 2021-05-24
How is `id` function implemented in Python? In this video, we explore the internals of `id` function in Python and find...
472 views • 14 likes • 2021-05-13
How python internally performs the comparison of a float and an integer value? We find this out in this video. Compari...
385 views • 30 likes • 2021-05-06
In this video, we answer, How python optimizes integers? Does it cache them? We go through the CPython source code to fi...
368 views • 21 likes • 2021-04-28
In this essay, we explore how python evaluates chained comparison operators. We dive deep into the code and answer the f...
1134 views • 50 likes • 2021-04-13
In this video, we dive deep into CPython and find out how Python optimizes strings. The optimization we will be going th...
1105 views • 46 likes • 2021-04-08
In this video, we alter the Python grammar and make an invalid syntax valid. We alter grammar and allow the Walrus opera...
2128 views • 78 likes • 2021-04-04
In this video, we set up CPython, build our binary, and make our first "Hello, World!" change. CPython Github Repositor...
2471 views • 62 likes • 2021-04-03
The Honest Python is a series in which we dissect certain features, behaviors, and not-so-obvious outputs by diving deep...
275 reads • 2021-04-27
In this essay, we find how chained comparison expressions are evaluated, understand how short-circuit evaluations happen...
2377 reads • 2021-03-29
In this essay, we alter the Python Grammar and allow it run Assignment Expressions without any parenthesis....
3917 reads • 2021-01-10
Every programming language aims to be performant and Python is no exception. In this essay, we dive deep into Python int...
1480 reads • 2020-12-20
Every programming language aims to be performant and Python is no exception. In this essay, we dive deep into Python int...
1790 reads • 2020-06-14
In Python, Integers are not iterables but we can make them iterable by implementing __iter__ function. In this essay, we...
1824 reads • 2020-05-17
To gain a performance boost and avoid reallocation of frequently used integers, Python creates singleton instances of sm...
12359 reads • 2020-02-07
Python natively does not support function overloading - having multiple functions with the same name. Today we see how w...
3584 reads • 2020-01-10
Python must be doing something beautiful internally to support super long integers and today we find out what's under th...
1121 reads • 2020-01-03
I changed the Python's source code and made addition incorrect and unpredictable. The addition operation will internally...
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