Python 3.10 is beginning to fill-out with plenty of fascinating new features. One of those, in particular, caught my attention - structural pattern matching - or as most of us will know it, switch/case statements.

Switch-statements have been absent from Python despite being a common feature of most languages. Python is leapfrogging ahead of those languages by introducing the match-case statement as a switch-case v2.0.

Back in 2006, PEP 3103 was raised, recommending the implementation of a switch-case statement. However, after a poll at PyCon 2007 received no support for the feature, the Python devs dropped it.

Fast-forward to 2020, and Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, committed the first documentation showing the new match-statements, which have been named Structural Pattern Matching, as found in PEP 634.

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:58 Switch-Case
• 02:37 Flow of Logic
• 03:21 Second Example (Tuples)
• 05:00 Final Example Setup
• 11:30 Final Example If-Else Version
• 15:22 Final Example Match-Case Version

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