The new pattern matching statements would give Python programmers ... has lacked a native syntax for pattern matching, it has been possible to emulate it with if/elif/else chains or a dictionary ...

Python, for all its power and ... to construct and maintain. Each case statement is followed by a pattern to match against. In the above example we’re using simple strings as our match targets ...

So, we’ve got a switch statement with slightly ... let’s look at a more exciting example, right out of the feature proposal to add the keyword in question to Python: I find an efficiency ...

I recently switched to using python 2.5 from 2.4, one of the new language level features in 2.5 is conditional expressions. Which I thought was odd because I was already writing conditional ...