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In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

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Getting input from users is one of the first skills every Python programmer learns. Whether you’re building a console app, validating numeric data, or collecting values in a GUI, Python’s input() ...

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Right now the debugger won't let you in any way edit the values of variables that are of the "asset reference" or "instance reference" type. This is sometimes really painful, for example I have an ...

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