Nothing shouts culture more than visiting relatives during Chinese New Year. From celebrations and customs to decorations and food (it’s… (more…)

I wanted to make a font based on my handwriting using only free software. It turns out that FontForge can be scripted with Python. I know just a little about Python and even less about typography, but I managed to hack together something that worked for m... (more…)

As we know from the previous parts of this series, the execution of a Python program consists of two major steps: 1. The CPython compiler... (more…)

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Fuzzy string matching in a nutshell Say we’re looking for a pattern in a blob of text. If you know the text has no typos, then determining whether it contains a pattern is trivial. In Python you can use the in function. You can also write a regex pattern ... (more…)