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.

Rejoice! Gone are the long chains of if…else statements, because switch statements will soon be here — sort of. What the Python gods are actually giving us are match statements. match s… ...

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.