Once you know how to add and use a Python module, you will greatly extend the capabilities of the language. A Python module is an external class or set of functions that exist outside the main file of ...

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 ...

The first stage of my Python learning journey: variables, strings and lists, iteration, modules, simple classes and small exercises. Every source file is at repository root so the learning evidence is ...

Now that we know how to build a module, the time has come to discover what goes into coding a module. Mostly this is a matter of making use of the C API and this is the subject of most of this book.

Learn which Python standard library modules are headed for the boneyard in Python 3.13, and how to replace them. Python’s been around in one form or another for over 30 years. Over that time, it has ...