The "horrible thing" in developer Erik Rose's talk from this year's PyCon is the Mediawiki syntax, but that's just a jumping off point for one of the best overviews of data parsing that I've run ...

I'm trying to run Xpath queries using etree, but I can't seem to figure out the Xpath syntax. Here's a (sanitized) section of my XML document. 1) Query using XML based on some value like the 'id' or ...

Programming computers used to be harder. Don’t get us wrong — today, people tend to solve harder problems with computers, but the fundamental act of programming is easier. We have high-level languages ...