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 ...

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 ...

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.