We look at the most popular code formatters in Python and help you take a decision on which one you should adopt. (more…)

At the risk of alienating most of the readership of this magazine, here is a confession. I hated Python for a very long time. My issue was not with the language per se, even though the indentation … (more…)

Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills. - norvig/pytudes... (more…)

“There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again.’” –George W. Bush... (more…)

Regular expressions can be arcane, yet when used with care they can also be very powerful. In this post a couple of tips to get more out of your regexes when using Python's re module. (more…)