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Publish to Azure in Visual Studio 2017

December 12, 2016 Dec 12, 2016 12/12/16
Steve Dower
This week, those of you using Visual Studio 2017 RC will be getting an update notification. This is a refresh of RC, with a whole lot of improvements and fixes (based on your feedback), and a selection of features that didn't quite make the initial RC release. For Python support, we've largely focused on bugfixes. There were 34 bugs resolved ...

Microsoft’s participation in the 2016 Python core sprint

September 27, 2016 Sep 27, 2016 09/27/16
Brett Cannon
From September 5th to the 9th a group of Python core developers gathered for a sprint hosted at Instagram and sponsored by Instagram, Microsoft, and the Python Software Foundation. The goal was to spend a week working towards the Python 3.6.0b1 release, just in time for the Python 3.6 feature freeze on Monday, September 12, 2016. The ...

Python lambda expressions unleashed

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16
CarlKadie
Carl Kadie, Ph.D., is a research developer in Microsoft Research/TnR working on Genomics. (image) Lambda expressions provide a way to pass functionality into a function. Sadly, Python puts two annoying restrictions on lambda expressions. First, lambdas can only contain an expression, not statements. Second, lambdas can't be ...