7 chapters of “High Performance Python” now live

O’Reilly have just released another update to our High Performance Python book, in total we’ve now released the following:

  • Understanding Performance Python
  • Profiling to find bottlenecks (%timeit, cProfile, line_profiler, memory_profiler, heapy)
  • Lists and Tuples
  • Dictionaries and Sets
  • Iterators and Generators
  • Matrix and Vector Computation (numpy and scipy)
  • Compiling to C (Cython, Shed Skin, Pythran, Numba, PyPy)

We’re in the final edit cycle, we have a lot of edits to commit to the main chapters over the next week for the next Early Release. All going well the book will be published in August.


Ian is a Chief Interim Data Scientist via his Mor Consulting. Sign-up for Data Science tutorials in London and to hear about his data science thoughts and jobs. He lives in London, is walked by his high energy Springer Spaniel and is a consumer of fine coffees.