Previous PEPs to add pattern matching — PEP 275 and PEP 3103, proposed in 2001 and 2006 respectively — were turned down due to lack of popular support. PEP 3103 was drafted by Python creator ...

Using the same methodology of 100,000 randomly generated input lines in Python showed some differences to Java. The first was that the code in general was almost five times slower. This is to be ...