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by biellls 1513 days ago
Pattern matching is supported in 3.10 and can match classes structurally, as well as other types (edit: I see that you mean you don't like that it's a statement, which I agree with). The typing system supports structural types with Protocol. Personally what I miss most are multi-line lambdas.
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mjburgess 1513 days ago
I'm not asking for "support" i'm asking for syntax. The question is why the syntax of data processing in python is illegible, not "are things technically possible in python".

Commenters here are keen to say "but dont you know!" -- and, yes, I do.

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zasdffaa 1513 days ago
To be fair the confusion of FP vs FP syntax is from your comment: "Perhaps if python would add more support for FP (rather than its present hostility)"

Python does FP fine and FP via an ugly library or via elegant inbuilt syntax is still FP. I get you want nicer syntax but it wasn't clear.

I dunno, write a PEP and see if it gets support. I hope you succeed!

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