Python News and Articles

Complex decisions require the evaluation of multiple criteria. This article shows how to support such decisions with Linux, Python, and the TOPSIS Multi-Criteria Decision Model.

Creating your own clients to interact with your friends in the Fediverse is easy. A bit of Python and an off-the-shelf module will do the trick.

The Scapy packet manipulation program lets you analyze and manipulate packets to create incident response reports or examine network security.

The Linux /proc virtual filesystem offers a window into a running system – look inside for information on processes and kernel activity.

Can 10 heads in a row really occur in a coin toss? Or, can the lucky numbers in the lottery be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6? We investigate the law of large numbers.

If you're looking for a head start on solving the classic Knight's Tour chess challenge, try this homegrown Python script.

At a party with 23 guests, having two guests with the same birthday in more than 50 percent of cases may sound fairly unlikely to amateur mathematicians. Armed with statistical methods, party animal Mike Schilli sets out to prove this claim.

Markov chains model systems that jump from state to state with predetermined probabilities, but can they help write new columns like this one after learning from previously written articles?

Churn through lots of data with cluster computing on Apache's Spark platform.