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Documenting your code early on is quite a bit more important than most new developers realize. Documentation in software development refers to the idea of giving your variables, functions and other identifiers descriptive names. It also refers to adding good comments. When you are immersed in developing your latest creation, it is easy to create […]

Python 3.10 has several new typing features. They are given in detail here: PEP 604, Allow writing union types as X | Y PEP 613, Explicit Type Aliases PEP 612, Parameter Specification Variables The focus of this tutorial is to talk about PEP 604, which makes writing union types easier when adding type annotation (AKA:

If you are a software developer or engineer, then you know it can be really helpful to have sample data. The data doesn’t have to be real data either. Instead, the data can be fake. For example, if you are writing a program that will process HIPAA data, then you won’t be using actual data

Python 3.10 is coming out next month, so now is the time to start talking about the new features that it will contain. The core developers of Python recently announced that they are adding parenthesized context managers, which is a bugfix to a bug where Python 3.9 and earlier did not support parentheses for continuation

Application developers are always working with files. You create them whenever you write a new script or application. You write reports in Microsoft Word, you save emails or download books or music. Files are everywhere. Your web browser downloads lots of little files to make your browsing experience faster. When you write programs, you have

Do you need to work measurements often? What about converting from one unit of measurement to another? There is a Python package called Pint that makes working with quantities easy to do. Pint allows you do arithmetic operations between a numerical value and a quantity as well. You can see the many different unit types