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 ...

For rectangles, the inner and outer loops have hardcoded row and column ranges. #A 5x5 Python square star pattern for i in range(0,5): for j in range(0, 5): print("*", end='') print() #A 4x3 Python ...