In C and C++, it’s the switch/case construction; in Rust, it’s called “pattern matching.” The traditional ways to do this in Python aren’t elegant. One is to write an if/elif/else chain ...

The task can look daunting at first, but if you know the trick, you'll be able to easily print out any star pattern you encounter ... you'll see that the Python code I'm writing is actually Mojo: The ...