Python 3.13 has been released with a slight delay on the home straight. The new interactive shell aims to make development more convenient. In addition, the global interpreter lock can now be ...

Xonsh, now in development, provides a shell that combines the Python language with features of Bash Unix and the fish and zsh shells. Pronounced “conch,” the tool works with Linux, Windows, and Mac OS ...

Although bash scripts are regularly maligned, they do have a certain simplicity and ease of creation that makes them hard to resist. But sometimes you really need to do some heavy lifting in another ...

Familiar with the doge meme ? It’s dumb. Sometimes funny, but always dumb. Programmers, of course, have to take memes to an n+1 level, so Github user “thiderman” has created a Python shell script to ...

One of the delights in Bash, zsh, or whichever shell tickles your fancy in your OSS distribution of choice, is the ease of which you can use scripts. These can be shell scripts, or use the Perl, ...

Today’s book review is by guest blogger Patrice Gans, a technology teacher and library-media specialist at Fraser Woods Montessori School in Newtown, Conn. She is a member of the Computer Science ...

It's hard to believe, but there was a time when most online workers — and even many programmers — had never heard of Python. That certainly isn't the case today. With each new generation, Python has ...

In my last article, I continued looking at the Django Web framework, showing how you can create and modify models. As you saw, Django expects you to describe your models using Python code. The model ...