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.

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 ...

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 ...