This post explains how to use if statements in Python. This will form the backbone of much of your code going forward! Else statements, nesting, + more.

I need to do several operations, but most of them revolve around using the returned match object. I'd like to do the following, but Python doesn't accept the syntax.

Note: in Python, indexes start at 0, and the maximum is non-inclusive; for example, specifying the range 1 to 5 will include the second, third, fourth, and fifth values.

A proposal under consideration by Python’s development team would finally bring pattern matching statements to the language.

Introducing Python structural pattern matching Structural pattern matching introduces the match/case statement and the pattern syntax to Python.

Python's saving grace can be found within the original premise above: all other things being equal, shorter code is more likely to be bug-free. When you combine Python's dynamic typing with its ...