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.

Python 3.14, named after a famous irrational constant, has arrived in preview. Plus new goodness in Cython 3.1, using Python’s structural pattern matching, querying the NanoCube, and more.

Python, the most popular programming language today, has reached version 3.10, marking the next major release since the decade-long transition from Python 2.7. Tiobe, the compiler of a language ...