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OpenAI buys Python toolmaker Astral to bolster Codex vs. Anthropic

OpenAI has agreed to acquire Astral, a startup behind widely used Python development tools, in a deal designed to sharpen its ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Community Dev Gives VS Code Python Some YAPF

The latest update to Python in Visual Studio Code includes a new extension for Python formatting that was contributed by a member of the open source community. The repo does say that YAPF (Goole uses ...
InfoWorld

Python style: 5 tools to clean up your Python code

Look to these free tools to ensure that your Python code complies with recommended Python coding conventions and code quality standards In theory, any Python code is OK as long as it’s syntactically ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Python in VS Code Adds Data Viewer for Debugging

The January 2021 update to the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is out with a short list of new features headed by a data viewer used while debugging. Python for VS Code comes with the Python ...
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Shorter code, fewer bugs: Python's syntax is its saving grace

A few months ago, I had a discussion with some friends online. The premise of the discussion was that even if you account for complexity, shorter code is more likely to be bug-free code. As a C ...
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Researchers warn of malicious Visual Studio Code extensions

Can developers trust extensions downloaded for Microsoft’s popular Visual Studio Code editor? Researchers at Aqua Nautilus say they have found that attackers could easily impersonate popular ...