Most are self-paced. Python’s popularity keeps skyrocketing, and it’s easy to see why. From the coding language’s simple syntax to its ease of use, its versatility to its supportive ...

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.

The creators of the Python language are mulling a new proposal, PEP 622, that would finally bring a pattern matching statement syntax to Python. The new pattern matching statements would give ...