[Python-Dev] Switch statement (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Jun 11 02:47:06 CEST 2006


skip at pobox.com wrote:

switch rawinput("enter a, b or c: "): case 'a': print 'yay! an a!' case 'b': print 'yay! a b!' case 'c': print 'yay! a c!' else: print 'hey dummy! I said a, b or c!'

Before accepting this, we could do with some debate about the syntax. It's not a priori clear that C-style switch/case is the best thing to adopt.

-- Greg



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