Previous PEPs to add pattern matching — PEP 275 and PEP 3103, proposed in 2001 and 2006 respectively — were turned down due to lack of popular support. PEP 3103 was drafted by Python creator ...

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It's not just Python, of course, but with, say, C++ nobody's going to be concerned about adding some extra syntax, because C++ isn't where most people start learning to code.