I am a lonely Python/C++ coder with a background in financial markets and an interest in modern art. I am an application-driven guy, not a computer scientist. Sure I have many gaps in my knowledge, but I strive to do my best to fill them. I keep learning new things, listening to smart guys, correcting my mistakes, and pushing myself to the limits. I enjoy it.
I will use this website both as a blog and as a hub to some of my projects. It is written from scratch in Python's Flask, my favourite web-framework.
I have been always fairly confused when dealing with input streams, reading characters, words, or whole lines of text. I was not sure which of the function to use, and why.
One of the things that confused me most was, that there are...
ASCII table has 128 code points, which is not sufficient for all the languages and accents, that is why Unicode was invented. It can have up to 1.114.112 code points. The first 128 code points are ASCII making in backward...