Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...

This book shows how to level up from writing Python code to designing Python applications. Ronald Mak provides intuitive “before” and “after” examples of improved code, so readers can learn to plan ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages in data science because it combines simplicity, flexibility, and powerful analytical capabilities. Professionals use Python to collect, ...

Plus, Python’s new, standardized dependency lockfile format is here. And if you’re a fan of Zig for speed and Python for convenience, we show how to make both languages live in harmony. Top picks for ...

In previous chapters we have focused on sophisticated high-level data abstractions – but while it is true to say that in Python everything is an object it is universally true that in programming ...

If you ever used a computer in the '70s, '80s, and '90s, your first foray into programming was most likely with BASIC. Here are the reasons why Python has taken its place as the language of choice for ...

For decades, if you wanted to do heavy data lifting in Excel, your options were nested formulas, VBA macros, or a trip into the Power Query Editor. But with Python now accessible directly from Excel ...