To make sense of what’s been scanned, says Adil Shafi, president of Brighton, Mich.-based Shafi Inc. (www.shafiinc.com), a software-solutions value-added supplier to Daimler Chrysler, Ford Motor Co.

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.

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