Python is great because it includes an interactive mode for learning the language and quickly testing out code ideas. IPython ...

As an FYI, nosferatu-man's and my solutions are better than S. Carton's, but require Python 2.4. The "key" parameter to sort/sorted does a "Decorate-Sort-Undecorate"[1] automatically, whereas the ...

So I'm not a programmer, I took a few classes ages ago, but there are some Python scripts in use on the servers here so I figured I'd start. What I'm trying to do is call an API and get a chunk of ...