The traditional ways to do this in Python aren’t elegant. One is to write an if/elif/else chain of expressions ... to construct and maintain. Each case statement is followed by a pattern ...

While Python has lacked a native syntax for pattern matching, it has been possible to emulate it with if/elif/else chains or a dictionary lookup. PEP 622 proposes a method for matching an ...

I recently switched to using python 2.5 from 2.4 ... it invents a whole new syntax, unlike anything else (on the whole it is a better syntax than C, but still most people have at least a passing ...