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.

Interested in learning Python? Jack Wallen takes you through your first steps in building a simple application to take user input and write it to a file. Python is an open source, interpreted, ...

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