This post explains how to use if statements in Python. This will form the backbone of much of your code going forward! Else statements, nesting, + more.

On the first match, Python executes the statements in the corresponding case block, ... or a dictionary lookup — use that instead! Pattern matching is powerful, but not universal.

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 ...