Programming computers used to be harder. Don’t get us wrong — today, people tend to solve harder problems with computers, but the fundamental act of programming is easier. We have high-level languages ...

The "horrible thing" in developer Erik Rose's talk from this year's PyCon is the Mediawiki syntax, but that's just a jumping off point for one of the best overviews of data parsing that I've run ...

Not every programmer likes creating GUI code. Most hacker types don’t mind a command line interface, but very few ordinary users appreciate them. However, if you write command line programs in Python, ...