Here’s a new way to quickly get your parts into the schematic editor. It’s a Python script that generates symbols from an XML input file. You create the XML file with a list of all the pins on ...

Microsoft is considering adding Python as one of the official Excel scripting languages, according to a topic on Excel's feedback hub opened last month. Since it was opened, the topic has become ...

The core feature is the ability to add a callback in your C code that triggers the Python script. Think of this a little bit like a print statement, except you have so much more power since it’s ...

Anyone can do it, even if you have no prior coding experience. Learning to use write basic scripts with a language like Python or Bash can save you a lot of time on everything from organizing your ...

Steve Holden is chairman of the Python Software Foundation, and author of Python Web Programming. John Lam leads the IronRuby team at Microsoft. Rohan Pall, representing PHP, is a consultant who ...