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Compared to other programming languages (e.g., Java), Python has more idioms to make Python code concise and efficient. Although pythonic idioms are well accepted in the Python community, Python programmers are often faced with many…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zejun Zhang , Zhenchang Xing , Xin Xia , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu

The usage of Python idioms is popular among Python developers in a formative study of 101 performance-related questions of Python idioms on Stack Overflow, we find that developers often get confused about the performance impact of Python…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Zejun Zhang , Zhenchang Xing , Xin Xia , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu , Qinghua Lu

In the field of data science, and for academics in general, the Python programming language is a popular choice, mainly because of its libraries for storing, manipulating, and gaining insight from data. Evidence includes the versatile set…

Pythonic idioms are highly valued and widely used in the Python programming community. However, many Python users find it challenging to use Pythonic idioms. Adopting a rule-based approach or LLM-only approach is not sufficient to overcome…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Zejun Zhang , Zhenchang Xing , Xiaoxue Ren , Qinghua Lu , Xiwei Xu

Python, one of the most prevalent programming languages today, is widely utilized in various domains, including web development, data science, machine learning, and DevOps. Recent scholarly efforts have proposed a methodology to assess…

Python is one of the most commonly used programming languages in industry and education. Its English keywords and built-in functions/modules allow it to come close to pseudo-code in terms of its readability and ease of writing. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Joshua Otten , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Kevin Moran

We present the first method for automatically mining code idioms from a corpus of previously written, idiomatic software projects. We take the view that a code idiom is a syntactic fragment that recurs across projects and has a single…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Miltiadis Allamanis , Charles Sutton

This paper presents a tool stack for the implementation, specification and test of software following the practices of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) in Python language. The usage of this stack highlights the specification and validation…

The incorporation and adaptation of style guides play an essential role in software development, influencing code formatting, naming conventions, and structure to enhance readability and simplify maintenance. However, many of these guides…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Pablo Roberto , Rohit Gheyi , José Aldo Silva da Costa , Márcio Ribeiro

Python is known to be a versatile language, well suited both for beginners and advanced users. Some elements of the language are easier to understand than others: some are found in any kind of code, while some others are used only by…

Reviews are integral to e-commerce services and products. They contain a wealth of information about the opinions and experiences of users, which can help better understand consumer decisions and improve user experience with products and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Xiong Zhang , Jonathan Engel , Sara Evensen , Yuliang Li , Çağatay Demiralp , Wang-Chiew Tan

PyOD is an open-source Python toolbox for performing scalable outlier detection on multivariate data. Uniquely, it provides access to a wide range of outlier detection algorithms, including established outlier ensembles and more recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Yue Zhao , Zain Nasrullah , Zheng Li

Due to the rise of machine learning, Python is an increasingly popular programming language. Python, however, is dynamically typed. Dynamic typing has shown to have drawbacks when a project grows, while at the same time it improves…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Casper Boone , Niels de Bruin , Arjan Langerak , Fabian Stelmach

Software developers use Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) of libraries and frameworks extensively while writing programs. In this context, the recommendations provided in code completion pop-ups help developers choose the desired…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Andrea Renika D'Souza , Di Yang , Cristina V. Lopes

Programmers often search for usage examples for API methods. A tool that could generate realistic, idiomatic, and contextual usage examples for one or more APIs would be immensely beneficial to developers. Such a tool would relieve the need…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Manish Shetty , Koushik Sen , Ion Stoica

In the Python ecosystem, the adoption of idiomatic constructs has been fostered because of their expressiveness, increasing productivity and even efficiency, despite controversial arguments concerning familiarity or understandability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Alessandro Midolo , Massimiliano Di Penta

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end approach for AI-assisted code completion called Pythia. It generates ranked lists of method and API recommendations which can be used by software developers at edit time. The system is currently…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Ying Zhao , Shengyu Fu , Neel Sundaresan

Programmers may be hesitant to use declarative systems, because of the associated learning curve. In this paper, we present an API that integrates the IDP Knowledge Base system into the Python programming language. IDP is a state-of-the-art…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Joost Vennekens

This is the study that presents an AI-Python-based chatbot that helps students to learn programming by demonstrating solutions to such problems as debugging errors, solving syntax problems or converting abstract theoretical concepts to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Sayed Mahbub Hasan Amiri , Md Mainul Islam

Python's dynamic type system, while offering significant flexibility and expressiveness, poses substantial challenges for static analysis and automated tooling, particularly in unannotated or partially annotated codebases. Existing type…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ali Aman , Muhammad Asaduzzaman , Shaowei Wang
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