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• Nick Coghlan’s Python Notes — Nick Coghlan's Python Notes 1.0 documentation

  About These Notes¶ These notes are written using Sphinx and published to ReadTheDocs via BitBucket. Feedback is welcome on the BitBucket project issue tracker. Indices and tables¶

• Various Ideas for Python and CPython — Nick Coghlan's Python Notes 1.0 documentation

  Various Ideas for Python and CPython¶ My ability to generate ideas for ways in which Python could potentially be improved in various areas vastly outstrips the time I’m willing to spend following up o...

• Python Concepts — Nick Coghlan's Python Notes 1.0 documentation

  Years ago (around the Python 2.5 time frame) I wrote a draft manuscript for a Python User’s Reference that aimed at providing a middle ground between the tutorial and the full language reference. The ...

• Python 3 Q & A — Nick Coghlan's Python Notes 1.0 documentation

  August 2019: The entirety of http://py3readiness.org/turned green, indicating Python 3 support for the 360 most downloaded packages on PyPI. September 2019: The release of CentOS 7 (in which Python 3 ...

• Processing Text Files in Python 3 — Nick Coghlan's Python Notes 1.0 documentation

  UnicodeDecodeError and UnicodeEncodeError in Python 3. The key difference is that the default text processing behaviour in Python 3 aims to detect text encoding problems as early as possible - either...

• Else Clauses on Loop Statements — Nick Coghlan's Python Notes 1.0 documentation

  if <iterable> and else clause on an try statements for a different kind of else clause, a “completion clause”: >>> try: ... pass ... except: ... print("Then") # The try block threw an exce...