In C and C++, it’s the switch/case construction; in Rust, it’s called “pattern matching.” The traditional ways to do this in Python aren’t elegant. One is to write an if/elif/else chain ...

The creators of the Python language are mulling a new proposal, PEP 622, that would finally bring a pattern matching statement syntax to Python. The new pattern matching statements would give ...

When programming in Python, you may need to ask users for input, then translate that input into lower case letters. For example, a user may enter a text string in all capital letters and you need ...