FWIW, I've only use 8 of the listed new features, and 2 of them are to get behavior that was in Python 2. That makes it come across as if I don't find these ne

FWIW, I've only use 8 of the listed new features, and 2 of them are to get behavior that was in Python 2. That makes it come across as if I don't find these new features to be useful. Actually, it's more that until earlier this year I still supported Python 2.7. > So if you don't want the match statement, are you willing to give up the better error messages as a trade? That's a rather unfair argument. The new parser doesn't require the match statement, so the error message could have been added without making that tradeoff. > Interpolation support for bytes and bytearray via % Wasn't that added because it was a pain point in the Python 2->3 transition? After all, it existed in Python 2.x for both str() and unicode() strings. > Suppressing exception context (raise exc from None) This also restored functionality from Python 2. What Python 3 added was chained exceptions, but with no option to disable chaining except through circumlocutions.