5 ways to speed up your Python code

Welcome back! As some of you may know, Python is a very powerful language with a ton of features, but it’s never been the fastest language, in fact, one of the biggest complaints (and one of the reasons people switch over to another language) is the speed of Python, so let’s talk about a few different ways you can speed up your Python code!

Don’t Use Global Variables

A very easy way to speed up your Python code is actually avoiding the global variable, what is a global variable? It’s essentially a variable that can be used throughout the program, by eliminating this variable, this can substantially increase the speed of your program.

Changing Your While Loops

Another interesting way to speed up your Python code is within your while loops, there are times where you may use the following line:

while True:
#code down here

A faster way to write an infinite loop is by using 1 instead of True:

while 1:
#code down here

Loading Packages As You Need Them

Another effective way to speed up the processing time of your Python application is by loading your packages as you need them, what does that mean? Well, a typical Python project…