In this post, as part of my series on Python's syntactic sugar, I'm going to cover assert statements. Now, the actual unravelling of the syntax for assert a, b is already given to

As part of my series on Python's syntactic sugar, I am going to cover import statements. This will include delving into the quirky interface of __import__()(although in actual code you should use

As part of my series on Python's syntactic sugar, I am going to cover boolean operations: a or b and a and b. The semanticsA key thing to know about or and and

This post in my series on Python's syntactic sugar, I am going to cover membership testing: in and not in. As the language reference says, "the operators in and not in test for

For this next blog post in my series of Python's syntactic sugar, I'm tackling what would seem to be a very simple bit of syntax, but which actually requires diving into multiple layers