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.

In this example, we have opened a new file, written the words “Hello World!” and then closed the file. The “w+” tells Python that we are writing to a new file.

So I have a program in Python for use on a Linux machine that's dealing with binary data flowing through what may be a Linux FIFO.I'm using Avinash Kak's BitVector to modify the data as it goes ...