Turns out, my old Python assignments had plenty left to teach me.

The modulo operator (%) is used in many programming languages. If you write Python code with the same intuition as C, Java, or JavaScript, the sign of the 'remainder' (modulo) in division involving ...

The idea of adding None-aware operators to Python has sprung up once again. These would make traversing structures with None values in them easier, by short-circuiting lookups when a None is ...

One way to speed up your Python programs is to write modules in the Zig language and use them in your Python code. Here's how to get started. Python might not be the fastest of languages, but it has ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

Readers who think some or all of that looks more like Perl—or, more pejoratively, like line noise—than Python are not alone. That is probably one of the most common complaints heard after Steve Dower ...