The "horrible thing" in developer Erik Rose's talk from this year's PyCon is the Mediawiki syntax, but that's just a jumping off point for one of the best overviews of data parsing that I've run ...

A superset of Python that compiles to C, Cython combines the ease of Python with the speed of native code. Here's a quick guide to making the most of Cython in your Python programs. Python has a ...