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.

The name match was used for a reason — what’s actually ... right out of the feature proposal to add the keyword in question to Python: I find an efficiency hit a small price to pay for such ...

We have a surprising amount to say about Python’s addition of the match statement (not be be confused with switch statements). And when it comes to electromechanical synth gear, it’s hard to ...