Defining a list in Python is easy—just use the bracket syntax to indicate items in a list, like this: list_of_ints = [1, 2, 3] Items in a list do not have to all be the same type; they can be any ...

Python arrays are powerful, but they can confuse programmers familiar with other languages. In this follow-on to our first look at Python arrays we examine some of the problems of working with lists ...

Is there a general way to traverse and replace the items in a nested sequence of arbitrary depth? Say, for instance, that I want to eliminate all the commas in any strings in some absurd nested ...

Python has keyword arguments for functions that is a useful (and popular) feature; it can make reading the code more clear and eliminate the possibility of passing arguments in the wrong order. Python ...

Python arrays are powerful, but they can confuse programmers familiar with other languages. In this follow-on to our first look at Python arrays we examine some of the problems of working with lists ...