Python is an open-source, object-oriented programming language. According to Python.org, its simple, easy-to-learn syntax emphasizes readability and therefore reduces the cost of program maintenance.

My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.

We have a need to edit some JSON files and replace some of the data values on a repeatable basis. The same task needs to be done for a smaller number of XML files. For example, given a file containing ...