This post explains what a Python module is and how to use it to drastically extend the capabiltiies of your code. Plus: how to make your own!

At first, this article might seem like a Python Fu and not a Linux Fu, since — at first — we are going to focus on Python. But just stand by and you’ll see how this can do a lot of things on ...

Python's "multiprocessing" module feels like threads, but actually launches processes. Many people, when they start to work with Python, are excited to hear that the language supports threading. And, ...

The SOX package is a sound conversion and utility package for Linux. It provides the play command, which is used for playing the various alarm warning sounds. Several sound wrapper modules are ...

Over the weekend, experimenters discovered that OpenAI's new chatbot, ChatGPT, can hallucinate simulations of Linux shells and role-play dialing into a bulletin board system (BBS). The chatbot ...