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 ...

msgpack has native text and binary types, but the default behavior of msgpack.unpackb of the text type is to return the still-encoded bytes, rather than the decoded text (unicode on Python 2, str on ...

My c++ function is a callback that gets overwritten in python, the problem is that it has an argument that receives std::string, which is not valid utf8, and I want the argument passed in as bytes in ...

Improvements to the next (and future) versions of Python are set to speed it up, slim it down, and pave the way toward even better things. Because Python is a dynamic language, making it faster has ...