Hidden gems are those small features that help making coding in Python easier and more fun. We are not talking about the big features that make the headlines, but rather small things that we can use day to day to solve small problems....

We discuss what the match statement is, how it differs from the switch-case statement in other languages, and how understanding that difference allows us to take advantage of the full power of the statement....

I recently gave a talk at the local Chennai Python User Group about using the pyparsing library to parse files. Here are the slides along with the commentary from the session....