Take advantage of caching and the lru_cache decorator to relieve your Python functions from repetitive heavy lifting.

In Python, the mere act of making a function call incurs a relatively large amount of overhead. If some function is called repeatedly in a tight loop, even if it isn’t a long-running function ...

In Python, you can define functions with optional arguments — that is, arguments that you don’t need to state explicitly afterwards — by providing a default value.

Python lets you set default values for function arguments, which is super convenient. But when those default values are mutable (like lists or dictionaries), you're walking into a sneaky bug trap.

Azure Functions, Microsoft's take on cloud-hosted, serverless, event-driven computing, now officially supports the Python programming language. The general availability of Python support follows a ...