As we were the first to report in September 2019, JPMorgan had a few issues with Python's decision to stop supporting Python 2 from January 2020. - The U.S. bank built its Athena risk and pricing platform in Python 2.7 and had 35 million lines of code to ... (more…)

The “with” statement in Python is regarded as an obscure feature by some. But when you peek behind the scenes of the underlying Context Manager protocol you’ll see there’s little “magic” involved. (more…)

Learn one of the most important concepts of object-oriented programming, Encapsulation, in Python,... (more…)

My Python script template. Contribute to teddywilson/python-script-template development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

I have long noted issues with Python 3’s bytes/str separation, which is designed to have a type “bytes” that is a simple list of 8-bit characters, and “str” which is a… (more…)