Interested in learning Python? Jack Wallen takes you through your first steps in building a simple application to take user input and write it to a file.

Large firms spend millions on data to gain an edge. But thanks to a free Python project, small businesses and independent investors can start closing that gap—without spending a fortune.

If you need a quick web server running and you don't want to mess with setting up apache or something similar, then Python can help. Python comes with a simple builtin HTTP server. With the help of ...