The data format called list in R or dictionary in Python, usually shortened as dict, has a long history in the management of data, being one of the simpler but useful evolutions of basic data formats ...

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.

Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 751, accepted March 31, aims to create a new file format for specifying dependencies that is machine-generated and human-readable.

After years of python development, I grew tired of receiving data from APIs, database, csv files and so on and working with them as python dictionaries. The "simple" JSON deserializer library options ...