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 ...

When you combine Python's dynamic typing with its generally very compact syntax, you can succinctly and clearly express complex ideas and calculations in fewer lines of code than equivalent C-family ...

That is the new match-case statement ... context managers. Pre Python 3.9, we could write something like this to open two (or more) file I/O streams: That first line is pretty long, too ...