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 ... without having to resort to workarounds. Pattern matching is a common feature of many programming languages, such as switch/case in C.

The name match was used for a reason — what’s actually going on here is something called Pattern Matching ... proposal to add the keyword in question to Python: I find an efficiency hit ...