Finally, you may also want to combine if statements with “else” statements. Else does exactly what it sounds like: it tells Python what to do if the value isn’t true. For example, we might ...

Rejoice! Gone are the long chains of if…else statements, because switch statements will soon be here — sort of. What the Python gods are actually giving us are match statements. match s… ...

In the above example we’re using simple strings as our match targets, but more complex matches are possible. In fact, the chief use case for structural pattern matching is to match patterns of ...