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 ...

Python 3.10 introduced structural pattern matching, a feature that has caught the attention of many developers. This addition to the language brings about a paradigm shift in how you can approach ...

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 ...

The name match ... called Pattern Matching. To illustrate what that is, let’s look at a more exciting example, right out of the feature proposal to add the keyword in question to Python: I ...

In the context of Python, a language renowned for its simplicity, structural pattern matching was a missing feature until October 2021. Finally, the feature is shipped in Python 3.10, allowing ...

This way, you can perform matches based on the number of elements you’re matching against, or their combination. The most advanced feature of Python’s structural pattern matching system is the ability ...