Season #2.5

It was a long break but tomorrow we start again. We have plenty of ideas for posts but don't always have time to write them. So, this is how you can help us:

• If you have something to tell about Python (syntax, stdlib, PEPs), check if it already was posted. If not, write a post, send it to us, and we will publish it. It will include your name (if you want to), we don't steal content ;)

• If you don't have an idea, just contact us, we have plenty of them! And if you like it, the algorithm is the same as above: write a post, send it, we publish it with your name.

• If you don't have time to write posts but still want to help, consider donating a bit of money, links are in the channel description. If we get enough, we can take a one-day vacation and invest it exclusively into writing posts.

• If you see a bug or typo in a post, please, let us know!

And speaking about bugs, there are few in recent posts that our lovely subscribers have reported:

• post #641, reported by @recursing. functools.cache isn't faster than functools.lru_cache(maxsize=None), it is exactly the same. The confusion comes from the documentation which says "this is smaller and faster than lru_cache() WITH A SIZE LIMIT".

• post #644, reported by @el71Gato. It should be 10**8 instead of 10*8. We've re-run benchmarks with these values, relative numbers are the same, so all conclusions are still correct.

Welcome into season 2.5 :)