That is pretty self-explanatory except perhaps for "_", which is a wildcard that will match anything. The idea is that each case will be tried in the order specified, the first to match will be ...

Many languages have a "switch" (or "case") statement to handle branching to different blocks based on the value of a particular expression. Python, however, does not have a construct of that sort; it ...

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 ...