Editor, Łukasz Langa,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.9, compared to 3.8. Python 3.9 was released on October 5, 2020. For full details, see the changelog. Summary – Release high...

Source code: Lib/http/__init__.py http is a package that collects several modules for working with the HyperText Transfer Protocol: http.client is a low-level HTTP protocol client; for high-level U...

Editor, Elvis Pranskevichus < elvis@magic.io>,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.7, compared to 3.6. Python 3.7 was released on June 27, 2018. For full details, see the changelog....

The functions described in this chapter will let you handle and raise Python exceptions. It is important to understand some of the basics of Python exception handling. It works somewhat like the PO...

Functions for number conversion and formatted string output. PyOS_snprintf() and PyOS_vsnprintf() wrap the Standard C library functions snprintf() and vsnprintf(). Their purpose is to guarantee con...

Author, A.M. Kuchling and Moshe Zadka,. Introduction: A new release of Python, version 2.0, was released on October 16, 2000. This article covers the exciting new features in 2.0, highlights some o...

“Descriptors” are objects that describe some attribute of an object. They are found in the dictionary of type objects.

Author, Andrew Dalke and Raymond Hettinger,. Python lists have a built-in list.sort() method that modifies the list in-place. There is also a sorted() built-in function that builds a new sorted lis...

This module performs file and I/O control on file descriptors. It is an interface to the fcntl() and ioctl() Unix routines. See the fcntl(2) and ioctl(2) Unix manual pages for full details. Availab...

Source code: Lib/pydoc.py The pydoc module automatically generates documentation from Python modules. The documentation can be presented as pages of text on the console, served to a web browser, or...