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 ...

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.

There's bonus points for modularity here, since you don't even need to keep the 'case' statements anywhere near the switch, like you need to in regular Python 'if/elif' statements or other inferior ...

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