A change for Python 3.8—currently in beta—has produced some user-visible warnings, but the problem is often in code that a user cannot (or should not) change: third-party modules. The problem that the ...

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 ...

A programmer who has put '\latex' as part of a string literal (to pick a not entirely random example) presumably actually wants '\\latex', which is what Python currently translates it to. This was a ...