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.

[Stealth] put together a post explaining how he writes drivers for input peripherals. He’s using Python which makes the process fairly painless (we’ll get to that in a minute) but the v… ...

Python is an interpretive programming language optimized for developing interactive applications. When programming in Python, you may need to ask users for input, then translate that input into ...