The latest release of Python, 3.8, is available with many new features and optimizations. Notable improvements include the so-called "walrus operator" and positional-only parameters. One main change ...

Readers who think some or all of that looks more like Perl—or, more pejoratively, like line noise—than Python are not alone. That is probably one of the most common complaints heard after Steve Dower ...

The saga of the None-aware (or null-coalescing) operators for Python continues. We last looked in on the topic a little over a year ago and noted that either adoption or a clear rejection of the idea ...