Python is a remarkable language, but its latest addition is making some programmers thing that maybe it has lost its way - although it really does depend on what you think that way is. Pattern ...

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 ...

The genesis of the PEP was a "nerd sniping email on a Wednesday during COVID" from Guido van Rossum to Bucher to see if he wanted to be part of the effort to try to add a match statement to the ...

A way to specify multiply branched conditionals in the Python language—akin to the C switch statement—has been a longtime feature request. Over the years, various proposals have been mooted, but none ...