The inverted pyramid has been used for years in journalism to create news stories, and for good reason. The art of front-loading content (giving the most important information up front) makes this ...

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.

Developed more than a century ago to take advantage of a new communications technology, the inverted pyramid remains a controversial yet widely used method of reporting news and will have a future in ...