Structural pattern matching introduces the match/case statement and the pattern syntax to Python. The match/case statement follows the same basic outline as switch/case .

5. a ternary statement is not confusing. conflating if else statements with other syntax is deeply confusing though p.s. i don’t use python. this has done nothing to make me want to use it ...

I recently switched to using python 2.5 from 2.4, one of the new language level features in 2.5 is conditional expressions. Which I thought was odd because I was already writing conditional ...