How to use the regular expression functions provided by the ‘re’ library to match, search, and replace text in your Python programs. Regular expressions, or “regex,” is a system for ...

In C and C++, it’s the switch/case construction; in Rust, it’s called “ pattern matching.” The traditional ways to do this in Python aren’t elegant.

Python is an extremely versatile programming language that has grown organically over time. That's the reason for its enduring appeal and also a curse on those who would seek to advance it.