In October 1984 I arrived at Oxford University, trailing a large steamer trunk containing a couple of changes of clothing and about five dozen textbooks. I had a freshly minted bachelor’s degree in ...

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Billy Strings revealed that he wants to set his late mother’s poetry to music for a potential new album during an extensive interview about drug use and addiction on the Dopey podcast. Strings’ mother ...

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Are you ready for Python Pi? The 3.14 beta is out now, and we’ve got the rundown on what’s so great about it, including the new template strings feature, or “f-strings with superpowers.” ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Ionia County-bred bluegrass star Billy Strings paid a special visit to Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital Tuesday. The hospital posted on its social media Wednesday that Strings, whose ...

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As we’ve seen, strings are ordered collections of characters, delimited by quotation marks. But what kind of characters can be included in a string? Since Python 3.0, strings are composed of Unicode ...