To demonstrate how to use functions in Python, we will use Thonny, a free, easy to use and cross platform Python editor. Before you start, Install Thonny if you don’t have it already.

Take advantage of caching and the lru_cache decorator to relieve your Python functions from repetitive heavy lifting.

Azure Functions, Microsoft's take on cloud-hosted, serverless, event-driven computing, now officially supports the Python programming language.

In Python, the mere act of making a function call incurs a relatively large amount of overhead. If some function is called repeatedly in a tight loop, even if it isn’t a long-running function ...