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, 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 conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method that is clear and easy to read. One can achieve the same result using one or two lines ... In Python it ...