Moving from Python 2 to 3? Here's what you need to know about strings and their role in in your upgrade. An old joke asks "What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two ...

It it now time to look at grouping bits together to form bytes. Python is unusual in that it can represent a bit pattern of arbitrary length using its bignum data type. Most other languages have to ...

String handling is quite different between Python 2 and Python 3, largely because the latter is designed to handle Unicode natively. But those differences make it more difficult for Python-2-based ...