If you work with strings in your Python scripts and you're writing obscure logic to process them, then you need to look into regex in Python. It lets you describe patterns instead of writing ...

Many of the irrational and transcendental functions are multiply defined in the complex domain; for example, there are in general an infinite number of complex values for the logarithm function. In ...

These are handy PS files I've built for my own use that might be useful to others. Usage: add a soft link to dmmlib from your work directory.

Python is a language that seems easy to do, especially for prototyping, but make sure not to make these common mistakes when coding.