Because it allows you to separate strings that use bytes from strings that use Unicode already in Python 2, and to continue that explicit difference when you get to Python 3 as well. I should add that ...

Strings can be considered index-based collections of smaller strings or characters, each one referenced by its position in the string. Furthermore, Python contains the notion of "slice-notation ...

We’ve long used f-strings in Python to conveniently format variables in a string. Python 3.14 introduces an even more advanced feature in this vein, template strings as defined in PEP 750. A ...

This week, the dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code announced a new tool to provide those smarts, Pylance, named after a character created by the British Monty Python surreal comedy troupe. "The ...

It takes a bit of time to get used to seeing / between what you might think of as strings. But remember that dirname isn't a string; rather, it's a Path object. And / is a Python operator, which means ...

F-strings, Python’s convenient system for performing string formatting, used to be heavily restricted in terms of how they could be formatted. Python 3.12 removes many of these limitations. The ...