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.

[Stealth] put together a post explaining how he writes drivers for input peripherals. He’s using Python which makes the process fairly painless (we’ll get to that in a minute) but the value of ...

Among the most popular languages for this purpose are Bash, Python ... processing directly from the command line interface. They excel at: Loop structures and conditionals: For repetitive and ...