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 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 ...

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 ...

Search engines have come a long way from relying on exact match keywords. Today, they try to understand the meaning behind ...