How to use the regular expression functions provided by the ‘re’ library to match, search, and replace text in your Python programs. Regular expressions, or “regex,” is a system for finding complex ...

I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...

Now you can have Cython’s speed boost without its cumbersome syntax, using the pure Python syntax you know and love. Cython has long been one of the great secret weapons of Python performance, letting ...

Google's Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow, which aims to bring a major performance boost to the Python programming language by making runtime speed five times faster ...

Read chapter 12 from the book Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language by Mark Summerfield. This chapter is an excerpt from Programming in Python 3: A Complete ...