Note: You can use either Python console or IPython console. We recommend using IPython as it has many good features. You can personalize the look and feel of the Spyder interface by choosing from ...

Python, for all its power and popularity, has long lacked a form of flow control found in other languages—a way to take a value and match it elegantly against one of a number of possible conditions.

When you combine Python's dynamic typing with its generally very compact syntax, you can succinctly and clearly express complex ideas and calculations in fewer lines of code than equivalent C-family ...