I often use Google’s geocoding API to find details about a location like this:
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Offline reverse geocode
Python Opensource Efficiency June 01, 2014
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How to make python faster
Python Efficiency February 01, 2012
Python and other scripting languages are sometimes dismissed because of their inefficiency compared to compiled languages like C. For example here are implementations of the fibonacci sequence in C and Python:
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Threading with webkit
Javascript Webkit Qt Python Example Concurrent Efficiency December 30, 2011
In a previous post I showed how to scrape a list of webpages. That is fine for small crawls but will take too long otherwise. Here is an updated example that downloads the content in multiple threads.