Structural pattern matching tutorial

Structural pattern matching is coming in Python 3.10 and this article explores how to use it to write Pythonic code, showing the best use cases for the match statement. Structural pattern matching is coming to Python, and while it may look like a plain switch statement like many other languages have, Python's match statement was not introduced to serve as a simple switch statement. PEPs 634, 635, and 636 have plenty of information on what structural pattern matching is bringing to Python, how to use it, the rationale for adding it to Python, etc. In this article I will try to focus on using this new feature to write beautiful code. At the time of writing, Python 3.10 is still a pre-release, so you have to look in the right place if you want to download Python 3.10 and play with it.