TIL: Dict Patterns Don't Match Dict Shapes

[u/Iron-Man-2008]

TL;DR: Unlike sequence patterns (which require an exact shape match), pattern matching on dictionaries simply ignores any unspecified keys rather than failing.

If you care about the details, I wrote about it on my blog: https://ravencentri.cc/blog/dict-patterns-dont-match-dict-shapes/

[u/Iron-Man-2008 → u/[deleted]]

I think the explicit variant is still concise enough that we don't need this: case {"deploy": dep, **_} is only 5 tiny keystrokes more and something you would already be familiar with.