This post explains how to use if statements in Python. This will form the backbone of much of your code going forward! Else statements, nesting, + more.

Introducing Python structural pattern matching Structural pattern matching introduces the match/case statement and the pattern syntax to Python.

From my understanding, Python removed this functionality because it causes so many programming errors. What is the Pythonic way to do this?

You're taking a new programming class this fall, and you don't know anything about code. Python is taught widely in schools, and it's one of the most loved programming languages because it's simple.