The Python programming language serves as a flexible platform for desktop and Web development. Part of Python's ease of use comes from its extensive list of data types, which include powerful ...

I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...

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.