Python 3.15 defaults to UTF-8 for character encoding. Changes on Windows

On October 9, 2026, Python 3.15.0 was released. When opening a file with open() without specifying a character encoding, it ...

Handling CSV Character Encoding, Dates, and Numbers Correctly: A Practical Introduction to Python

When you start working with CSVs in Python, almost everyone hits the same wall. It looks garbled when opened in Excel. Dates remain as strings and cannot be calculated. You get an error when trying to ...
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Bytes, Characters and Python 2

Moving from Python 2 to 3? Here's what you need to know about strings and their role in in your upgrade. An old joke asks "What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two ...