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.

OK, so long story short, I have a set of files that contain exported binary values from the windows registry. The values look something like this:<BR><BR>hex:f3,33,02,f1,02,83,a4 [and so on, multiple ...