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.

Apparently the PEP authors decided to punt on what they call "algebraic matching" of repeated names. IMNSHO, if this PEP isn't doing algebraic matching then it's really far from clear what it's for, ...

The genesis of the PEP was a "nerd sniping email on a Wednesday during COVID" from Guido van Rossum to Bucher to see if he wanted to be part of the effort to try to add a match statement to the ...