The "horrible thing" in developer Erik Rose's talk from this year's PyCon is the Mediawiki syntax, but that's just a jumping off point for one of the best overviews of data parsing that I've run ...

Pythonistas are eager to extol the lovely virtues of our language. Most beginning Python programmers are invited to run import this from the interpreter right after the canonical hello world. One of ...

I'm about 98% done building an app for parsing a certain network vendor's XML dumps, and need some help with group objects I know I should have used etree, but minidom seemed too straight forward to ...