What started as a routine pull request on a popular Python project turned into something closer to an AI-fueled grudge post. After a volunteer reviewer shut down an automated code submission, the bot ...

Last Thursday, matplotlib developer Scott Shambaugh found himself in a peculiar situation. The day before, he had closed a pull request (PR) in the matplotlib project on the GitHub code repository. A ...

On February 11, the pull request was technically sound. It offered 24% faster code with benchmarks to prove it. But when matplotlib maintainer Scott Shambaugh discovered the contributor was an AI ...

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Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...

Main façade of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice. Credit: Venicescapes, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. At the heart of Venice’s globally renowned St. Mark’s Square sits Biblioteca Marciana, a ...

Matplotlib is a feature-rich module for producing a wide array of graphs, plots, charts, images, and animations. Since Matplotlib is not part of the Python core libraries (like the math and csv ...

basemap does not "pip install" cleanly under Python 3.13. Might be related to some of the pinned upper versions of package dependencies? This environment had numpy 1.26.4 installed (so not a numpy 2.0 ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

Despite miles of ground covered as we drove through the Everglades under the cover of darkness, it was impossible to ignore the fact that we hadn’t spotted a single mammal. The expansive wetlands in ...