For example, a user may enter a text string in all capital letters and you need to normalize the data by translating it to lower case. You can translate user input to lowercase using Python's ...

String manipulation is always resource-intensive, but compiled regex in Python and Java can help keep performance issues at bay.

[Stealth] put together a post explaining how he writes drivers for input peripherals. He’s using Python which makes the process fairly painless (we’ll get to that in a minute) but the value of ...