I’ve found myself explaining Python 3’s str to people online more and more often lately. There’s this ridiculous claim about that Python 3’s string handling is broken or somehow worse than Python 2, and today I intend to put that myth to rest. Pyt...

Learn how to use the OpenAI API powered by the GPT-3 engine with Python to build a Programmable SMS chatbot. (more…)

This is an introduction to data scraping using Python. In a live-coding session, I'll scrape data from this website: https://www.premiumbeautynews.com/ I'll ... (more…)

A light introduction to the Python pickle protocol, the Pickle Machine, and constructing malicious pickles. (more…)

I was recently involved in a python 2 to 3 upgrade project at work and had a decent experience using pyenv and virtualenv together during development to deal with multiple pythons in a relatively sane way. (more…)