In C and C++, it’s the switch/case construction; in Rust, it’s called “pattern matching.” The traditional ways to do this in Python aren’t elegant. One is to write an if/elif/else chain ...

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 ...

One of the major new developments planned for Python 3.10 (due in October) is structural pattern matching syntax, which is a common feature in many other languages. Why has it proved so ...