Python’s development team chose defaults that reflect the most common real-world scenarios. But if you do need to tweak the way garbage collection works, you can use Python’s gc module .

Once you know how to add and use a Python module, you will greatly extend the capabilities of the language. A Python module is an external class or set of functions that exist outside the main ...

Learn which Python standard library modules are headed for the boneyard in Python 3.13, and how to replace them. Python’s been around in one form or another for over 30 years. Over that time ...

For instance, if a developer were to accidentally use a rogue pseudo-random number generator instead of Python's official secret module, an app's cryptographic functions might be easy for ...

CVE-2007-4559 is a directory traversal vulnerability in the “extract” and “extractall” functions in Python’s tarfile module. When exploited, it allows a user-assisted remote attacker to ...

Giesa, Tristan, Ravi Jagadeesan, David I. Spivak, and Markus J. Buehler. "Matriarch: A Python Library for Materials Architecture." ACS Biomaterials Science ...