Previous PEPs to add pattern matching — PEP 275 and PEP 3103, proposed in 2001 and 2006 respectively — were turned down due to lack of popular support.PEP 3103 was drafted by Python creator ...

It's a fun and effective way to teach and reinforce programming fundamentals. The task can look daunting at first, but if you know the trick, you'll be able to easily print out any star pattern you ...

Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster ...

Author Zed A. Shaw makes a simple promise in his Hard Way series of books from publisher Addison-Wesley Professional: "It'll be hard at first.But soon, you'll just get it—and that will feel great!" ...