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.

The creators of the Python language are mulling a new proposal, PEP 622, that would finally bring a pattern matching statement syntax to Python. The new pattern matching statements would give Python ...

We examined the performance of four families of large language models (LLMs) and a variety of common fuzzy matching algorithms in assessing the similarity of names and addresses in a sanctions ...