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 ...

Python's saving grace can be found within the original premise above: all other things being equal, shorter code is more likely to be bug-free. When you combine Python's dynamic typing with its ...

Python has become a popular programming language due largely to its highly readable syntax and its comparatively forgiving compiler. This makes Python very approachable to new learners. However, as ...