Rejoice! Gone are the long chains of if…else statements, because switch statements will soon be here — sort of. What the Python gods are actually giving us are match statements. match s… ...

In C and C++, it’s the switch/case construction; in Rust, it’s called “pattern matching.” The traditional ways to do this in Python aren’t elegant. One is to write an if/elif/else chain ...

As a general-purpose language, Python has an advantage over R, Khalusova said. Python is more production-friendly, and it's easier to learn -- both for beginners and those who switch to it from other ...