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 ...

Python, for all its power and popularity ... then use the values to take an action—e.g., store a function as a value and use the key or some other variable as input. In many cases this works ...

When you combine Python's dynamic typing with its generally very compact syntax, you can succinctly and clearly express complex ideas and calculations in fewer lines of code than equivalent C-family ...