Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting Mathematisch Centrum in the Netherlands as a successor of a language called ABC. Guido remains Python’s principal …

5 days ago · This page is licensed under the Python Software Foundation License Version 2. Examples, recipes, and other code in the documentation are additionally licensed under the …

Browse the docs online or download a copy of your own. Python's documentation, tutorials, and guides are constantly evolving. Get started here, or scroll down for documentation broken out …

4 days ago · While The Python Language Reference describes the exact syntax and semantics of the Python language, this library reference manual describes the standard library that is …

5 days ago · After reading it, you will be able to read and write Python modules and programs, and you will be ready to learn more about the various Python library modules described in The …

4 days ago · This is a design principle for all mutable data structures in Python. Another thing you might notice is that not all data can be sorted or compared. For instance, [None, 'hello', 10] …

5 days ago · The solution is to use Python’s raw string notation for regular expression patterns; backslashes are not handled in any special way in a string literal prefixed with 'r'.

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The online documentation is your first port of call for definitive information. There is a fairly brief tutorial that gives you basic information about the language and gets you started.

5 days ago · The semantics of non-essential built-in object types and of the built-in functions and modules are described in The Python Standard Library. For an informal introduction to the …