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.

If we find that condition was set to "Unacceptable", we set shelf_id to None — but we don’t store condition itself in the class instance. When to use Python dataclasses—and when not to use them ...

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