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 faster interpreter, more intelligible errors, more powerful type hints, and a slew of other speedups and tweaks are now ready to try out. The Python programming language releases new versions yearly ...

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 ...