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 ...

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… ...

Compiled regular expressions still performed comparatively well in Python, though. This method processed the 100,000 lines in 165 ms, about two times faster than string primitives in Python.