Structural pattern matching introduces the match/case statement and the pattern syntax to Python. The match/case statement follows the same basic outline as switch/case.

After you master how to print square, rectangle and triangle star patterns, you'll realize complex shapes such as arrows, diamonds and tetrahedrons are simply creative combinations of the former. The ...

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 ...