The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has withdrawn a grant application submitted earlier this year to the US government. Specifically, the PSF had applied to the National Science Foundation of the US ...

In 1892, a mixed-race shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in a "Whites-only" railcar. Four years later in Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his arrest ...

Elif Ogan, 48, beloved daughter of Pekin and Christine Ogan; sister of Banu Ogan of Santa Fe, New Mexico; and partner of Anthony Hernandez, Portland, Oregon, left our world on July 2 in Portland. We ...

Python’s new template strings, or t-strings, give you a much more powerful way to format data than the old-fashioned f-strings. The familiar formatted string, or f-string, feature in Python provides a ...

TREATING AMERICANS EQUALLY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order eliminating the use of disparate-impact liability in various contexts to ensure equal treatment under the law.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

President Joe Biden’s symbolic declaration on Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment is “the law of the land” likely only sets up more debates for Congress and the courts over the constitutional ...

Learn about Emily Card, Jeanne Hubbard, Stephanie Lipscomb, and Rosemary Reed—four women whose stories about financial independence demonstrate the importance of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...