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.

There was a time that design patterns were all the thing. Not so much now. But Python - does it have design patterns? The now classic Gang of Four design patterns book Design Patterns: Elements of ...

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 ...