This post explains how to use if statements in Python. This will form the backbone of much of your code going forward! Else statements, nesting, + more.

I have a simple question that I can workaround, but I'd like to find the Pythonic way of doing it. I'm using Python 3.1.2. re.match() will return a match object if the regex is found and None if ...

You might remember we mentioned that Python object types can be dynamic – the type can be defined by the value you tell the object to store or by the operations you perform on the object.

A proposal under consideration by Python’s development team would finally bring pattern matching statements to the language.