Technically I think this feature would do unpacking for you, just more verbosely, like so: d = {"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": 3, "z": 4} match d: case {"a": a,

Technically I think this feature would do unpacking for you, just more verbosely, like so: d = {"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": 3, "z": 4} match d: case {"a": a, "b": b, "z": z}: print(a, b, z) o = SomeObject(someval=42) match o: case SomeObject(someval=someval): print(someval) from https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0636/#going-to-the-cloud-mappings https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0636/#going-to-the-cloud... and https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0636/#adding-a-ui-matching-objects https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0636/#adding-a-ui-matchi... it's more verbose but lets you easily add a default case to catch and handle when a key you expected to be in the dict isn't or the object doesn't actually match the object you expect.