[issue42128] Structural Pattern Matching (PEP 634)

[Carol Willing]

Carol Willing <willingc at gmail.com> added the comment:

Absolutely, I can help do that.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 9:14 PM Guido van Rossum <report at bugs.python.org>
wrote:

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> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> added the comment:
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> Carol, the most urgent thing we have going is to come up with text for
> what's new. I posted a PR that adds my standard "quick" tutorial (
> https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24588) which is also found in
> Appendix A of PEP 636 (the tutorial PEP -- the specification PEP 634 has a
> different Appendix A :-), but we are worried that this is going to mislead
> people into thinking "Oh, this is a switch with a funny name" -- which is
> exactly what we don't want (see Jake vd Plas Tweet at
> https://twitter.com/jakevdp/status/1359870794877132810). Having stared at
> this for way too long already I think I'm not able to come up with a better
> way to present this *quickly* in a format that's appropriate for What's New
> (concise, highlights only, meant for existing fairly experienced Python
> users). Do you think you can help?
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