Tom Fenton reports running Ollama on a Windows 11 laptop with an older eGPU (NVIDIA Quadro P2200) connected via Thunderbolt dramatically outperforms both CPU-only native Windows and VM-based ...

Python developers often need to install and manage third-party libraries. The most reliable way to do this is with pip, Python’s official package manager. To avoid package conflicts and system errors, ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Last month, I was debugging a particularly nasty data processing script that was taking 4 hours to run. Four. Hours ...

Astral's uv utility simplifies and speeds up working with Python virtual environments. But it has some other superpowers, too: it lets you run Python packages and programs without having to formally ...

Python libraries are pre-written collections of code designed to simplify programming by providing ready-made functions for specific tasks. They eliminate the need to write repetitive code and cover ...

When installing Python libraries, there are two general approaches. One will install packages into the local user library directory, using the pip command, while the other involves creating virtual ...

This confounds argparse library which believes to have received -a '10 -b 100' and fails. This also prevents passing arguments surrounded in quotes (like -t "this is a text"). The only workaround ...

When you install python3-dev, you're getting a package that's likely very incompatible with the package from this image (and twice as much Python). 😅 We'd block distro packages of Python if we could ...

If you want to install Python in Windows 11/10, this guide will help you. There are two ways to install Python – using the official website and using the Microsoft ...

In part 2 of this series, I outlined writing a script in Python which was an example real-world task a tester may face; taking screenshots of websites based on a list of URLs. The URL check script ...