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The `match` statement, slated for the next version of Python (3.10), is rather comprehensive. Don't think we could reasonably expect much more than this to be retrofitted into an old language [0]

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/#exhaustiveness-che...

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0634/

[0] Trivia: Python is older than Linux!

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Very exciting for experienced developers missing this from other languages, but I predict the growing spec of Python is leading it away from the "my first language" crowd in future.

I'm so excited for match to become a thing. Honestly, exhaustiveness had kept me from using Python for some work that I'd have otherwise loved to use it! I enjoy FP and some of the other benefits of Ocaml, which is what I use for programs where Mypy can't give me what I need. But at the end of the day, I'm just not as nimble with it, and I can just see the python in my head so much easier.

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