Python happily will read as much as it can into a huge string, potentially using all (or most) of the memory on your computer. A better strategy, and a traditional one in Python, is to read through ...

So I have a program in Python for use on a Linux machine that's dealing with binary data flowing through what may be a Linux FIFO.I'm using Avinash Kak's BitVector to modify the data as it goes ...

The newly approved Python Enhancement Proposal 751 gives Python a standard lock file format for specifying the dependencies of projects. Here’s the what, why, and when.

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