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.

In the last post introducing Python, I demonstrated how to make a simple app using variables and conditional statements. In order to do anything really powerful in a given programming language though, ...

In this Python for beginners tutorial, you will learn the essentials for data analysis. The tutorial covers how to install ...

Part of the power of a computing environment lies in the ability to store, manipulate, and recall information. This is done using variables and statements. Here we create a variable a, and assign to ...