Brandon Rhodes Why does "top" show that your Python process uses 110 MB of virtual memory but has a resident set size of 9 MB? Does it consume more memory to... (more…)

The current name might confuse people into thinking this was an official port, filing bugs on the official bug tracker for it and so on. There will never be an official Python 2.8, so there should ...

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While learning the Nim language and trying to correlate that with my Python 3 knowledge, I came across this awesome comparison table of string manipulation functions between the two languages. (more…)

This article is a sequel to Unicode strings in Python: A basic tutorial. Read that... (more…)