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 ...

Trying to describe these complex 2D checks using syntax originally designed for 1D checks has caused design rule implementations to balloon. Fortunately, a new approach called pattern matching (PM ...