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 ...

So, for example, the key "Father" could have a value of "Bob." Or, more relevantly, a key of "Hits" (or any word) could have a value of 55. In the latter case, the word is given the value of 55.