If you have never programmed before, then make sure to read the next section to find out precisely what an “if statement” is, and how to use it. if magic_number ...

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 ...

There's bonus points for modularity here, since you don't even need to keep the 'case' statements anywhere near the switch, like you need to in regular Python 'if/elif' statements or other inferior ...