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

Abstract: A Regular Expression, often abbreviated as Regex, are a sequence of characters that define a search pattern. An Non-deterministic Finite Automata (NFA) is a computational machine which can ...

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Now that we've unpacked some iconic tagline examples, let's take a second to savour what makes them so deliciously effective at sticking around. Have you ever heard those slogans that never seem to ...

Abstract: A regular expression (regex) is said to be vulnerable to the regex denial of service (ReDoS) attack if the worst-case running time of a matching algorithm on the regex is super-linear in the ...

In forecasting economic time series, statistical models often need to be complemented with a process to impose various constraints in a smooth manner. Systematically imposing constraints and retaining ...

Let's be honest, we're all drama queens sometimes. Whether you're texting your bestie you're “literally dying” over the latest celebrity gossip or declaring on social media that Monday mornings are ...

Getting input from users is one of the first skills every Python programmer learns. Whether you’re building a console app, validating numeric data, or collecting values in a GUI, Python’s input() ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...