I'm a successful systems administrator, been doing it for about 15 years, and I have some spare time on my hands, so I thought I would try my hand at learning some Python. I've done basic scripting ...

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).

The Windows version of the Python interpreter can be run from the command line the same way it’s run in other operating systems, by typing python or python3 at the prompt. But there’s a feature unique ...

Python still leads despite a dip; C edges past C++ for #2; SQL re-enters the top 10 as Perl drops out after last month’s ...

One of the features that makes Python a great programming language is exceptions for error handling. Exceptions are convenient in many ways for handling errors and ...

Testing functions isn't hard, but how do you test user input and output? In my last article, I started looking at "pytest", a framework for testing Python programs that's really changed the way I look ...

Overview: Python libraries simplify testing networks and detecting vulnerabilities in systems.Tools like YARA and ...

Better error messages, support for Linux profiling tools, and many improvements to Python's type hinting have just landed. Let's take a look. The Python programming ...

Google is changing the payment model for Colaboratory, its Python-writing code system. Informally known as Colab, the platform is designed for users to write and execute Python code from within your ...