Previous PEPs to add pattern matching — PEP 275 and PEP 3103, proposed in 2001 and 2006 respectively — were turned down due to lack of popular support.PEP 3103 was drafted by Python creator ...

Patterns in Python structural pattern matching. Patterns can be simple values, or they can contain more complex matching logic. Some examples: case "a": Match against the single value "a".

One of the major new developments planned for Python 3.10 (due in October) is structural pattern matching syntax, which is a common feature in many other languages. Why has it proved so ...