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I rebuilt my most complicated Excel workbook in Python with an AI agent's help, and I'm not going back

Excel isn't useless here, either. Poking one number and watching everything move is instant, and Excel's own Python in Excel ...

Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support

Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...

Mastering Python's math and random: From rounding up and greatest common divisors to random number reproduction, shuffling, and estimating pi

Introduction to math and random In this lesson, we will explain Python's standard libraries: math and random. When writing ...
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LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 8, 2026

Kroah-Hartman started with a plot of the number of kernel CVE numbers that were fixed with each release; a version of that plot appears to the right. The trend is clear: after running at a steady rate ...

The time I asked Python to round 2.5 servings of udon, and it insisted, "It's 2 servings."

Good evening, I'm Udon 🍜Today is extra-serving day. I'm having Python's round() function count the number of servings the ...