If you work with strings in your Python scripts and you're writing obscure logic to process them, then you need to look into ...

Overview: Prior knowledge of the size and composition of the Python dataset can assist in making informed choices in programming to avoid potential performance ...

Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...

Mr. Tersigni is a cultural critic. Have you ever obeyed the suggestions of a digital writing assistant to replace a word or restructure a sentence without knowing how, why or even if it made your ...

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The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary, by Sarah Ogilvie (Knopf, 370 pp., $30) Recently, I had a friend to lunch in New York and when I showed him my study, ...

Today we will see different ways of extracting values and keys from a python dictionary. Similarly, you can easily access any other item’s location. It’s been a month and you are making great progress ...

A Florida school district last month pulled the Merriam-Webster dictionary from library shelves to comply with a state law banning books with descriptions of "sexual conduct." The common dictionary ...

Early in my career, I (La’Kita) worked for a major U.S. insurance company. The company values were displayed prominently in the cafeteria, hallways, and offices across the building. These values ...