On October 9, 2026, Python 3.15.0 was released. When opening a file with open() without specifying a character encoding, it ...

When you start working with CSVs in Python, almost everyone hits the same wall. It looks garbled when opened in Excel. Dates remain as strings and cannot be calculated. You get an error when trying to ...

Python 3.15 reached stable status on Oct. 9, 2026, according to its official release page. Its headline changes put UTF-8 in charge of text encoding by default and introduce an opt-in lazy keyword for ...

The dreaded UnicodeDecodeError exception is one of the signature "features" of Python 3. It is raised when the language encounters a byte sequence that it cannot ...

The Python string object isn’t that different from those encountered in other languages, but there are some differences that might puzzle you if you are familiar with other languages. It starts out ...

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I'm against making magic "unicode" strings with unspecified encoding and then forcing everything to use these strings. The idea behind “Unicode” strings is that they are not encoded at all (so much ...