I'm running python 3.9.7 and am making a youtube video info viewer / downloader. Without the match statement the code runs fine and doesn't have any errors with concern to missing brackets. An interesting thing is that Atom doesn't show match with any colour in my code, however it seems not to do that in a blank file with only the match anyway.
# A youtube info and downloader
import getpass
from pytube import YouTube
from pathlib import Path
username = getpass.getuser()
downloads_path = str(Path.home() / "Downloads")
# Create video object
link = input("Enter video link (Don't forget https://): ")
video_object = YouTube(link)
# Print info
print(f"Title: {video_object.title}")
print(f"Length: {round(video_object.length / 60, 2)} minutes")
print(f"Views: {round(video_object.views / 1000000, 2)} million")
print(f"Author: {video_object.author}")
# Download
print("Download: (b)est | (w)orst | (a)udio | (e)xit")
download_choice = input(f"{username} $ ")
match download_choice:
case: "b":
video_object.streams.get_highest_resolution().download(downloads_path)
case: "w":
video_object.streams.get_worst_resolution().download(downloads_path)
case: "a":
video_object.streams.get_audio_only().download(downloads_path)
Edit: I'm running it in the terminal
Had to install python3.10 from python.org because catch matching was only added in python 3.10
When getting invalid syntax error on match statement, check that you have at least python 3.10 installed as this is the version it was released.
You can check your current version
cmd
python -V
python
import sys
print(sys.version)
Install the latest version of python (Windows)
Download installer: https://www.python.org/downloads/
or
Chocolatey update
cmd install chocolatey if not already (paste to admin shell)
@"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"
Update python version (3.x)
choco upgrade python3 --pre
Sources:
https://www.delftstack.com/howto/python/how-to-update-python/
https://www.python.org/downloads/
https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/choco/setup#install-with-cmd.exe