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.

One of the most useful new features that Microsoft has incorporated into Excel in recent years is the ability to incorporate Python code directly into a spreadsheet. While it has long been possible to ...

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a flexible, cross-platform editor that can be transformed into a full-blown IDE for most any language or workflow. Over the past few years, it has exploded in ...