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.

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Python 3.10 development has stabilized and we can finally test out all of the new features that will be included in the final release. We’ll cover some of the most interesting additions to Python — ...