Python has functions, but it doesn’t have anything fundamental that works as a method. Instead when a function is defined as an attribute within a class the way that it works is automatically modified ...

Metaclasses are advanced and you generally don’t need to know about them or make use of them. But knowing how they work might suggest alternative approaches to many problems. This extract is from my ...

There should only be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it”, says the Zen of Python. Yet there are areas where even seasoned programmers debate what the right or wrong way to do things ...