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 ...

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.

The concept originates from mathematician George Boole, who in the 19th century developed an algebraic system of logic using only two values: true and false. In computer science, this binary way of ...