The story of how I thought I copied an attendance list, but ended up overwriting the original data—I had underestimated Python's "assignment"

After writing an article about character encoding, I had been gradually developing the same attendance management script.
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Bytes, Characters and Python 2

Moving from Python 2 to 3? Here's what you need to know about strings and their role in in your upgrade. An old joke asks "What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two ...