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.

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An enum is a value type. Value types in .Net are generally stored in the stack. You typically use enums to represent named constants in your application. There are two types of enums: simple enums and ...