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 ...

The name match ... called Pattern Matching. To illustrate what that is, let’s look at a more exciting example, right out of the feature proposal to add the keyword in question to Python: I ...