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.

Many engineers write code to automate instruments and collect data. While you can use commercially available programming languages, you can also use open-source software tools to write your automation ...

Today the release of Python 3.3.0 was made official, with a couple new syntax features, a handful of library modules, and several other improvements. According to Python.org’s site, the next version ...