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 ...

Structural pattern matching introduces the match/case statement and the pattern syntax to Python. The match/case statement follows the same basic outline as switch/case.

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 ...