In the early days of C, you’d occasionally see someone — probably a former Pascal programmer — write something like this: #define BEGIN { #define END } This would usually initiate complaints about ...

Last time, we learned how to apply Python's 'if statement' to change processing based on conditions. For example, it was code ...

I loaded a large JSON file in Python and watched memory jump from 43 MB to 808 MB. Here’s what happened and how streaming changed everything.

In the following example, we loop through a list of numbers, and use the variable digit to hold each number in turn: Strings in Python are considered “sequences” — they can be iterated over, and the ...

A user called "Python Millionaire" posted an example of some loops that they had written to process data about some basketball players; "I want to continue or break out of the nested loops because I ...

How to get started using Python's asyncio. Earlier this year, I attended PyCon, the international Python conference. One topic, presented at numerous talks and discussed informally in the hallway, was ...