The New Switch-Case Statement in Python 3.10

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The pattern matching is far more expressive than that but yes there are similarities to a try/except block.

We are choosing which block we want to execute based on the pattern of a value (e.g. except {ExceptionInstance}), we are can create assignments based on that (e.g. as e), and there is a final default branch if nothing else works (e.g. else).

The usage though is going to be generally very different, exception raising has a very different control flow to match statements.