Positron is Posit's new, free IDE for data science. Users can work with Python and R. It explicitly does not replace RStudio.

Take advantage of the high-level async functions in Python’s asyncio library to write more efficient Python applications.

Many Pythonistas are familiar with using decorators, but far fewer understand what’s happening under the hood and can write their own. It takes a little effort to learn their subtleties but, … ...

In Python, you can define functions with optional arguments — that is, arguments that you don’t need to state explicitly afterwards — by providing a default value.