Squares and rectangles are probably the best place to start when learning how to print Python star patterns. For squares, the number of stars on each row is equal to the number of rows. For rectangles ...

Python, for all its power and popularity, has long lacked a form of flow control found in other languages—a way to take a value and match it elegantly against one of a number of possible conditions.

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 ...