Pattern matching will definitely make Python harder to learn, though. It’s not particularly coherent with the rest of the language either - the match statement

Pattern matching will definitely make Python harder to learn, though. It’s not particularly coherent with the rest of the language either - the match statement has been described as “a DSL contrived to look like Python, and to be used inside of Python, but with very different semantics” [0]. [0] https://discuss.python.org/t/gauging-sentiment-on-pattern-matching/5770/21 https://discuss.python.org/t/gauging-sentiment-on-pattern-ma...