The "horrible thing" in developer Erik Rose's talk from this year's PyCon is the Mediawiki syntax, but that's just a jumping off point for one of the best overviews of data parsing that I've run ...

While Python offers powerful parsing and formatting capabilities, shell scripting remains vital for core system administration tasks such as monitoring disk space, archiving old files, tracking user ...

A surprisingly powerful partnership ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...