I have a variable data incoming from a websocket and I'm using match/case to determine what to do with it. It's coming in as a tuple as below, but I want to match both of these the same. data = ("foo", ) # or data = ("foo", {"bar": 213}) Some cases I need the data, others I don't. In the case I don't need it (i.e. the case above where the first element is foo) I just want to essentially ignore the second variable if it's present. This is my current way of doing this but am I going about it wrong? Or is there a more succinct form? match data: case ["foo"] | ["foo", _]: ... case ["baz", x]: ... ... Continue reading...