So, we’ve got a switch statement with slightly different syntax, right? Not quite. The name match was used for a reason — what’s actually going on here is something called Pattern Matching. To ...

Many languages have a "switch" (or "case") statement to handle branching to different blocks based on the value of a particular expression. Python, however, does not have a construct of that sort; it ...

We left the saga of PEP 622 ("Structural Pattern Matching") at the end of June, but the discussion of a Python "match" statement—superficially similar to a C switch but with extra data-matching ...