Exhaustive pattern matching with assert_never and static checkers.
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How do you enforce match/case exhaustiveness in Python?
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Python's match has no runtime exhaustiveness; enforce it statically with assert_never (typing) + mypy/pyright --strict and a final case _: that raises.
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