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Among the various methods of extending Python about which I have written, Python 2.5′s ctypes module is possibly the easiest. Submit article

Profitable use of threading in web development is rare, particularly when contending with Python’s global interpreter lock. There are a few notable exceptions to this. Submit article

Psyco is a module that optimizes Python applications on the fly. Numerous resources online describe how to use psyco in a Django-powered application to speed it up. Submit article

Django comes with an easy-to-use caching framework. With a few simple decorators, an application’s views are cached. Decorators can even be used to control upstream caches, such as those maintained by ISPs. Nevertheless, if a rendered view is customized with information individual to a user, these caching options cease to be useful. Submit article

Currying, known in Python land as partial application, is a technique in which a function taking multiple arguments composes a function that takes fewer arguments (in most languages, reducing to one, although this is not the case in Python) by partially applying it to given parameters. For example, a function, sum, might be used to [...]