Python, being ever extensible and customizable, enables you to customize the format in which it prints the timestamp. The datetime class internally uses its .isoformat() method when printing. Since .isoformat() is just an instance method, you can call it directly from any datetime object to customize the ISO timestamp

Since the invention of computers, humans have always needed and found ways to interact and share information with these machines. The information exchange has flowed among humans, computer software, and hardware components. The shared boundary between any two of these elements is generically known as an interface.

Python dictionaries, like lists and tuples, store a collection of objects. However, instead of storing objects in a sequence, dictionaries hold information in pairs of data called key-value pairs. That is, each object in a dictionary has two parts: a key and a value. Each key is assigned a single value, which defines the relationship between the two sets.

Advent of Code is an online Advent calendar where you’ll find new programming puzzles offered each day from December 1 to 25. While you can solve the puzzles at any time, the excitement when new puzzles unlock is really something special. You can participate in Advent of Code in any programming language—including Python!

The Python world never stops spinning! After the release of Python 3.11 in October, the Python release team is already launching the first alpha versions of Python 3.12. The excitement of trying shiny new things shouldn’t distract you from being cautious while coding, though. Recently, researchers found more malicious packages on PyPI, and lawyers raised concerns about license violations when using GitHub Copilot to generate code.