If you’re looking for a place to start, W3Schools has a Python tutorial that’s pretty straightforward. It breaks things down ...

As a buddy of mine always says "the nice thing about standards is that there's so many to choose from". Take CSV files for example. CSV, of course, stands for "Comma Separated Values", more often than ...

Last week, we looked at the fundamentals of Python (https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/0602gearhead.html) so this week we’ll examine some of the larger ...

TOML format files consist of key-value pairs, where keys are strings and values can be one of a number of types. In some ways it’s reminiscent of the Microsoft Windows .ini file format, but with ...

Since the creation of python reading in files has become much easier with each update and with each added package. To work with csv and xlsx files the easiest package is the pandas package because it ...