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 name match was used for a reason — what’s actually going on here is something called Pattern Matching ... to add the keyword in question to Python: I find an efficiency hit a small ...

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 most common use cases involve string manipulation, validation, or pattern matching. Python offers a built-in re-module that allows developers to utilize regex for many automation tasks ...

We have a surprising amount to say about Python’s addition of the match statement (not be be confused with switch statements). And when it comes to electromechanical synth gear, it’s hard to ...