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8. Compound statements

Compound statements contain (groups of) other statements; they affect or control the execution of those other statements in some way. In general, compound statements span multiple lines, although in simple incarnations a whole compound statement may be contained in one line.

(docs.python.org) 8.6: The

match

statement

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** 8.6. The
match
statement
Added in version 3.10.
The match statement is used for pattern matching. Syntax:
match_stmt   ::= 'match' subject_expr ":" NEWLINE INDENT case_block+ DEDENT
subject_expr ::= star_named_expression "," star_named_expressions?
                 | named_expression
case_block   ::= 'case' patterns [guard] ":" block
Note
This section uses single quotes to denote soft keywords.
Pattern matching takes a pattern as input (following
case
) and a subject value (following
match
). The pattern (which may contain subpatterns) is matched against the subject value. The outcomes are:

A match success or failure (also termed a pattern success or failure).

Possible binding of matched values to a name. The prerequisites for this are further discussed below.

The
match
and
case
keywords are soft keywords.
See also

PEP 634 – Structural Pattern Matching: Specification

PEP 636 – Structural Pattern Matching: Tutorial

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