We’ve seen that Python provides us with quite a few conveniences “right out of the box.” Among these are built-in functions, that we as programmers can use—and reuse—in our code with little effort.

It's a common joke that Python makes a great calculator in its interactive mode. You can make it an even better one with the built-in math module, which contains a lot of the same math functions you ...

Python is convenient and flexible, yet notably slower than other languages for raw computational speed. The Python ecosystem has compensated with tools that make crunching numbers at scale in Python ...