So, we’ve got a switch statement with slightly different syntax, right? Not quite. The name match was used for a reason — what’s actually going on here is something called Pattern Matching. To ...

Python, for all its power and popularity, has long lacked a form of flow control found in other languages—a way to take a value and match it elegantly against one of a number of possible conditions.

If you have never programmed before, then make sure to read the next section to find out precisely what an “if statement” is, and how to use it. if magic_number ...