Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

A couple of months ago, I decided to start learning Python. But this article isn’t strictly about Python. Soon after I took my decision to (slowly) learn my way around it, I asked my friend Gabe ...

I'm writing a python script to listen for an SMTP connection and send the received email through Yahoo's web interface. I've got it all figured out except for how to do "rich text" (i.e. the email has ...