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.

JetBrains, the company behind the popular PyCharm IDE, offers a free introductory Python course. This is a pretty neat option if you like learning by doing, especially within a professional coding ...

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