Why write ten lines of code when one will do? From magic variable swaps to high-speed data counting, these Python snippets ...

Faithful recreations of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" scenes and a talented cast of clowns steer a revival that dances between nostalgia and modernity The cast is seen from the Broadway revival of ...

Dangerous animals such as black bears and mountain lions have been spotted in Iowa throughout the past decade. A python was recently added to that list. Des Moines police notified residents of a ...

Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition created by the FWC. The Florida Python Challenge grand prize is $10,000. None of the eight competition locations are on the Treasure Coast. Python ...

We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, wishing for a more powerful tool to handle your data? Or maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Python in Excel and wondered if it’s truly the ...

A bobcat was documented killing and eating a 13-foot Burmese python in the Florida Everglades. Alligators, native snakes, and birds of prey are also known to prey on pythons. Burmese pythons are an ...

Free-threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker Remember those sites that tracked Python 3 compatibility with the top packages in PyPI? Here’s a similar tracker for seeing which libraries work ...

Python libraries are pre-written collections of code designed to simplify programming by providing ready-made functions for specific tasks. They eliminate the need to write repetitive code and cover ...

SXSW: Snake hunters from around the world descend upon the Everglades to cull the invasive Burmese python population in a contest that plays out like a Florida-fied "Cannonball Run." You can’t have a ...