While Python has lacked a native syntax for pattern matching, it has been possible to emulate it with if/elif/else chains or a dictionary lookup. ... Python 3.14's new template string feature.

A full-blown programming language like Java or Python can do many things, but regex does one thing only: match text against patterns. An individual regular expression is expressed as a string of ...

String primitives processed the 100,000 lines in 477 ms, while the standard regular expression came in at 904 ms. Compiled regular expressions still performed comparatively well in Python, though.