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 ...

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 ...

This is not akin to the C switch statement as much as to the match construct in the ML family (eg ocaml). Immensely useful. There is something similar in Haskell, and it is implemented as a macro in ...

New Python releases come as no surprise as we all know about them during their development and many opt to use them before they are finally released. Python 3.10 has a few welcome improvements, but ...