String primitives processed the 100,000 lines in 477 ms, while the standard regular expression came in at 904 ms. Compiled regular expressions still performed comparatively well in Python, though.

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 ...

Dataclass transforms. Since Python 3.7, dataclasses have made it easier to define classes that followed common patterns for creating properties based on their initialization parameters. But there ...