As the Florida Python Challenge gets closer, let's take a look at the largest Burmese pythons caught in Florida.

Previous PEPs to add pattern matching — PEP 275 and PEP 3103, proposed in 2001 and 2006 respectively — were turned down due to lack of popular support. PEP 3103 was drafted by Python creator ...

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.

The Florida Python Challenge is fast approaching, when hunters can sign up to euthanize as many invasive Burmese pythons as possible in 10 days to help protect the Everglades (and potentially win ...