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.

It's quite clear that things aren't going so well with this Covid-19 pandemic. I mean, it's bad, and it seems to be getting worse. The number of infected humans is just getting stupid-large. As of ...

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