The creators of the Python language are mulling a new proposal, PEP 622, that would finally bring a pattern matching statement syntax ... to emulate it with if/elif/else chains or a dictionary ...

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 ...

So, we’ve got a switch statement ... Matching. To illustrate what that is, let’s look at a more exciting example, right out of the feature proposal to add the keyword in question to Python ...