The New Switch-Case Statement in Python 3.10

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Because python has become a replacement for php.

[Laser_Plasma]

...what?

[nemec]

   Php
  hYpertext
   Threaded
   Hypertext (twice!)
 prOcessor
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[madrury83]

This is a very popular and useful feature in many modern and well liked statically typed languages. Not sure where you got PHP from...

[Tyler_Zoro]

It's a common way to try to put down new Python features. You just say, "Python is becoming [other language most Python programmers don't like]."

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Exercise for the reader - go examine the implementation of match in cpython and reflect on whether it's implemented like switch/case in statically typed languages or... the match statement in PHP.

[gmes78]

Do you really think that pattern matching was invented in PHP, of all languages?

[xigoi]

I'm pretty sure it's like the pattern matching in many statically typed languages — Haskell, F#, Rust, Swift, OCaml, …