When you start working with CSVs in Python, almost everyone hits the same wall. It looks garbled when opened in Excel. Dates remain as strings and cannot be calculated. You get an error when trying to ...

Master Python strings! This workbook explores string manipulation, basic Python formatting, and essential methods to handle text data, empowering your students’ to work efficiently with text. This ...

A change for Python 3.8—currently in beta—has produced some user-visible warnings, but the problem is often in code that a user cannot (or should not) change: third-party modules. The problem that the ...

Python’s new template strings, or t-strings, give you a much more powerful way to format data than the old-fashioned f-strings. The familiar formatted string, or f-string, feature in Python provides a ...

As a buddy of mine always says "the nice thing about standards is that there's so many to choose from". Take CSV files for example. CSV, of course, stands for "Comma Separated Values", more often than ...

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 ...