NEW YORK (AP) — Merriam-Webster on Thursday announced a major overhaul of its popular “Collegiate” dictionary. The company has added more than 5,000 terms. Here’s a few of them with definitions — and ...

Merriam-Webster will add more than 5,000 new words and 1,000 new phrases when it releases its first new edition in more than ...

Merriam-Webster's 12th edition Collegiate Dictionary adds over 5,000 new words, including "petrichor" and "ghost kitchen," ...

The core of the Python data model architecture is special methods (also known as "magic methods"). These methods, which start and end with double underscores, such as __init__, __getitem__, and __len_ ...

In []: %timeit (*(x**2 for x in range(1000)),) # (A) 47.2 μs ± 1.18 μs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10,000 loops each) In []: %timeit tuple(x**2 for x in range(1000)) # most idiomatic 45.4 μs ...

Problem: If obj is not a tuple or a list, the function is inefficient: it creates a temporary list. It's not possible to implement an "object array view" protocol in *3rd party C extension types. The ...

An interval on the number line is denoted by a pair of values like so: (3, 8). Our intervals are closed. So this interval represents all numbers between 3 and 8 inclusive. The first number is always ...