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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2021-05-14 05:55:41 (GMT)
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bpo-43977: Update pattern matching language reference docs (GH-25917) (GH-26117)
* Update patma language reference with new changes to sequence and mapping * update 3.10 whatsnew too (cherry picked from commit 53c91ac5253bf1cb3cb20e1345e798a53f4c3517) Co-authored-by: Ken Jin <28750310+Fidget-Spinner@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Ken Jin <28750310+Fidget-Spinner@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ Several other key features:
- Like unpacking assignments, tuple and list patterns have exactly the
same meaning and actually match arbitrary sequences. Technically,
- the subject must be an instance of ``collections.abc.Sequence``.
+ the subject must be a sequence.
Therefore, an important exception is that patterns don't match iterators.
Also, to prevent a common mistake, sequence patterns don't match strings.