After many proposals to add a switch/case-like syntax to Python failed, a recent proposal by Python language creator Guido van Rossum and a number of other contributors has been accepted for ...

Any function involving math operations, especially in Python, tends to be expensive. Caching and reusing the results is often orders of magnitude faster than recomputing the results each time. lru ...

In many cases, it's easiest to express your iterator in the form of a function, known in the Python world as a "generator function". For example, you can create a generator function that returns the ...

Some functions are Boolean in nature, returning a “yes” or “no” answer, or, more appropriately, a non-zero or zero value, respectively. Procedures are simply special cases, functions that do not ...

(CBS/WKMG) SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. - The defense rested its case Wednesday in the trial of a woman and her boyfriend charged in the death of a 2-year-old girl, who was strangled by a pet python that ...

The Campbellton case involving a python that killed two sleeping boys in 2013 has reached the end of the line in the criminal courts. Crown prosecutor Pierre Rouselle told Radio-Canada on Tuesday ...

Mark Neville, 28, was asphyxiated by a python he kept in his home in 1992. The case led to calls for standardized rules for exotic pet ownership, which still has yet to happen 21 years later.