Python has brought computer programming to a vast new audience

And its inventor has just stepped down

Some of the most alluring packages that Pythonistas can find in the Cheese Shop harness artificial intelligence (AI). Users can create neural networks, which mimic the connections in a brain, to pick out patterns in large quantities of data. Mr Van Rossum says that Python has become the language of choice for AI researchers, who have produced numerous packages for it.

How to create a REST API in Python using the Flask Microframework

I built an API around an application called BucketList. The application enables a user to Create, Read, Update and Delete(CRUD) a bucket and the items within. In this article, I will describe the process I went through while developing the API and I will share a few code snippets strictly for example purposes. The code lives on Github and you can find it here.