Like many of us, [Austin] finds writing code satisfying — especially if it is challenging. His latest challenge: shoehorn something that looks like Python into 512 bytes. Ok, that didn’t work out, but ...

Moving from Python 2 to 3? Here's what you need to know about strings and their role in in your upgrade. An old joke asks "What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two ...

When you have byte sequences to work with it is tempting to simply write a for loop that processes each byte in turn. However, notice that there is no easy way to implement a shift operation on a ...