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You know that street game where the performer (con artist?) has three opaque cups and a small ball. He places the cups upside down on the table, with the ball under one of the cups. He quickly shuffles the cups around and then asks the player to guess which cup has the ball. You’ve seen the game on TV, even if you’ve not seen it in real life.
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In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of How to Read User Input From the Keyboard in Python.
By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit the input() ...
In May, we shared the high-level goals of the Python Software Foundation's (PSF) strategic plan and asked for your commentary. Today we are publishing the full draft and opening a three-week community feedback window.
We welcome you to review the...
2026 is shaping up to be a big year for AI agents. We are seeing more products where the AI not only answers a question but also does some work for the user.
You have probably used ChatGPT or a similar AI tool to answer a question, help with writing, or explain some code. You type something, the AI responds, and the conversation goes back and forth. That is powerful, b...
Welcome back to Core Dispatch! This edition covers May 18 through June 4, 2026. As promised, Python 3.15.0 beta 2 landed on June 2. Two more milestones are close behind: 3.13.14 and 3.14.6 on June 9, followed by 3.15.0 beta 3 on June 23.
There's also a healthy batch of changes landing for 3.15: an O(n^2) blowup in unicodedata.normalize() was fixed, the XML parser gaine...