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.

How to Assign a Value to a Word in Python. The Python programming language, despite its ease of use, offers a depth of useful functions, modules and data structures.

Python 3.14 has a new feature called the template string, or t-string, type. A t-string superficially resembles an f-string, but it’s designed to do something very different.