For those that are unfamiliar with the concept of classes and who want to learn more about how they work, keep reading. If you just want the syntax for classes in Python, you can skip to the next ...

There should only be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it”, says the Zen of Python. Yet there are areas where even seasoned programmers debate what the right or wrong way to do things ...

Everything in Python might well be an object, but if this is the case we need some way of creating new custom objects. How objects become classes and more is explained in this extract from my book, ...

Python 3.7's dataclasses reduce repetition in your class definitions. Newcomers to Python often are surprised by how little code is required to accomplish quite a bit. Between powerful built-in data ...

Mark Shannon is concerned that the Python core developers may be replaying a mistake: treating two distinct things as being the same. Treating byte strings and Unicode text-strings interchangeably is ...

The reminder that the feature freeze for Python 3.7 is coming up fairly soon (January 29) was met with a flurry of activity on the python-dev mailing list. Numerous Python enhancement proposals (PEPs) ...