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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 ...

Learn how to get Python up and running on Windows, macOS, or Linux—and avoid the biggest pitfalls along the way. Python is easy to use, friendly to the beginner, and powerful enough to create robust ...

PyPI is popular among Python programmers for sharing and downloading code. Since anyone can contribute to the repository, malware – sometimes posing as legitimate, popular code libraries – can appear ...

At an age when most top programmers are enjoying their retirement, 64-year old Guido van Rossum decided "retirement was boring" and came back to work for -- drumroll please -- Microsoft. Van Rossum is ...