Making Sense of Python's Object Model

Introduction

We're going to explain a few things about Python's object model here. Python's object model (at least with regard to data) can be viewed as being similar to Java's and C#'s if one considers only those languages' "class types", which are reference types.

In this view, Python has …

Character Codes and Encoding

Introduction

We're going to explain a few things about character codes and encodings here. Even though there is increasingly only Unicode and UTF-8 these days, beginning developers continue to have a hard time.

Links:
https://www.unicode.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/byte_order_mark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ascii …