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.

A few months ago, I had a discussion with some friends online. The premise of the discussion was that even if you account for complexity, shorter code is more likely to be bug-free code. As a C ...

Python's if name equals main construct provides a standard entry point to run scripts and standalone apps. Python has become a popular programming language due largely to its highly readable syntax ...

Long in development, the new major release of the Python-to-C compiler sheds legacy Python support and readies Cython developers for big changes in Python. The main goal behind Cython is to make it ...