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, ...

I stopped grinding textbook exercises when I found these Python games.

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.

Python web applications have long adhered to the Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) standard, which describes how they talk to web servers. WSGI, originally introduced in 2003 and updated in 2010, ...