The newly approved Python Enhancement Proposal 751 gives Python a standard lock file format for specifying the dependencies of projects. Here’s the what, why, and when.

The vast majority of the packages found on public repositories such as npm for JavaScript, PyPI for Python, and RubyGems for Ruby consist of open-source code files that are packaged into archives.

Thonny is a nice option to create a PY file, open Python files, and edit PY files on Windows 10. This open-source tool has a simple interface and it is intended to use for beginners.

When Python for Windows is installed, it will associate the .pyzw file extension with the Python executable, causing Python to execute the scripts automatically when the file is double-clicked.

Working with GitHub, they found 2.87 million open-source files which contained Python’s tarfile module in about 588,000 unique repositories — 61% of which, or 350,000, were vulnerable to being ...

Python packages can be distributed as self-contained .whl files. Installing them is easy: pip install /path/to/file.whl . It’s also not hard to download wheels as files using pip .