Python has evolved significantly over the past decade. While Python once had a strong reputation as an "easy-to-write scripting language," it has now advanced in various areas, including type checking ...

So I have a data dump that's supposed to represent a person's height. The data is crap and I'm trying to clean it up. Ultimately, I aim to have a separates fields for feet and inches.

It it now time to look at grouping bits together to form bytes. Python is unusual in that it can represent a bit pattern of arbitrary length using its bignum data type. Most other languages have to ...