It’s the Friday afternoon before Memorial Day Weekend, which means, if you’re anything like me, your brain is somewhere out the window. Why not indulge its wandering weirdness with some Monty Python?

This is a crash course for Python. We'll quickly go through the basic data types of Python (strings, lists, sets, dictionaries), and cover conditionals and loops (if-else, while loops, for). We'll end ...

Interested in learning Python but don't know where to start? I'll walk you through the basics of the ever-popular programming language step-by-step. In an hour or so, you'll go from zero to writing ...

Over the past 12 years, one specially trained Florida team has removed 770 adult pythons from South Florida, primarily in and around the Everglades. That adds up to about 36,000 pounds of pythons. But ...

Finally, a book good enough to be both a textbook and a reference on the Python language now exists. Part of Prentice Hall's PTR Core Series, this book works well as a first Python textbook for ...

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Professional snake removal experts captured a 30-pound, 6½-foot Burmese python from a Miami-Dade residential area, preventing potential danger to pets and children.

Learn how to get Python up and running on Windows, macOS, or Linux—and avoid the biggest pitfalls along the way. Python is easy to use, friendly to the beginner, and powerful enough to create robust ...

A superset of Python that compiles to C, Cython combines the ease of Python with the speed of native code. Here's a quick guide to making the most of Cython in your Python programs. Python has a ...