Back in September, we looked at a Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) to add "lazy" imports to the language; the execution of such an import would be deferred until its symbols were needed in order to ...

There are also format specifiers which allow you to return multiple simple data values packaged as tuples, lists or dictionaries. If you surround a format with parentheses () then a tuple is ...

Back in March, we looked at a discussion and Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) for a new dictionary "addition" operator for Python. The discussion back then was lively and voluminous, but the PEP ...

You can convert a C string to a Unicode Python string using the format codes: s, U or z. The documentation says that this converts the UTF-8 C string into a Unicode Python string. If the C string is ...