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.

Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...

Carbohydrate-containing foods vary in how they will affect your blood sugar, a quality measured as glycemic index (GI). Green veggies, beans, and most fruits have a low to medium GI, while white rice ...