Python s match statement, which provides a long-sought C-like
switch statement though it is far more than that has now been part of the
language for more than six months. One of the authors of the series of Python
Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) that described the
feature, Brandt Bucher, came to PyCon 2022 in Salt Lake City, Utah to talk
about
the feature. He gave an overview of its history, some of its many-faceted
abilities, a bit about how it was implemented, and some thoughts on its
future, in a presentation on
April 29, which was the first day of talks for the conference.
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Feature The 30th anniversary of Python this week finds the programming language at the top of its game, but not without challenges. I do believe that Python just doesn’t have the right priorities these days, said Armin Ronacher, director of engineering at software monitoring biz Sentry and creator of Flask, the popular Python web app framework, in an email interview with
The Register.
Ronacher, a prolific Python contributor, remains a fan of the language. He credits Python s success to being both easy to learn and having an implementation that was easy to hack. And in its early years, Python didn t have a lot of competitors with those same characteristics, he said.