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You have already written a “Hello, World!” program. As you can see, this isn’t very flexible—you provided the exact text you wanted to print. However, more often than not, we don’t know the values we ...

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 ...

Cats can use hundreds of facial expressions to communicate, a new study reveals. Over the course of a year, researchers recorded a total of 276 distinct facial expressions used among a colony of 50 ...

Options assignment is a process in options trading that involves fulfilling the obligations of an options contract. It occurs when the buyer of an options contract exercises their right to buy or sell ...

I was recently interviewed on John Henry Sheridan’s podcast about creative expression, including whether I thought it was imperative for a well-lived life. I do. But I don’t necessarily think of it in ...

It would be nice if Pylance could recognize that the example below would result in a SyntaxError. $ python test.py File "/.../test.py", line 1 l = lambda s: val if ...