In C and C++, it’s the switch/case construction; in Rust, it’s called “pattern matching.” The traditional ways to do this in Python aren’t elegant. One is to write an if/elif/else chain ...

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 ...

For many years, developers chose mathematical-correlation algorithms for most pattern-matching applications—a technique that still works well, as long as you can adapt your inspection system to its ...