The interpreter is the program that runs in the background and that allows your computer to understand Python. Think of it a little bit like a language pack! The IDE is the “integrated development ...

Automating mundane tasks keeps your attention focused on the work that matters.

Think it's complex to connect your Python program to the UNIX shell? Think again! In past articles, I've looked into concurrency in Python via threads (see "Thinking Concurrently: How Modern Network ...

Marvelous Designer for Linux arrives 30 September with Rocky Linux and RHEL 9 support plus a new Python API for automation.

os.path.join (folder, filename) ensures the path is correct for the system. On Windows, it uses backslashes (reports\summary.txt); on Linux and macOS it uses forward slashes (reports/summary.txt).

Today, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft is announcing the general availability of a new version of its flagship operational database, SQL Server 2017. SQL Server is a product I have ...

Mobile app development for smartphones is hot. This is no more prevalent than in the Android space where the activity level oftentimes is frenzied. However, when it comes to building a “real” Android ...

Bloomberg’s Python Infrastructure team supports the more than 3,000 engineers at Bloomberg who write code using the Python programming language. The team provides critical infrastructure to ensure ...

I have a bunch of serial devices that I need to communicate with. Some of them are connected to native serial ports, and some have USB->RS232 adapters. I am communicating to them via the serial port ...