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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jun 21 02:23:12 CEST 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

Well, the hypothetical use case is one where we have an arbitrary object of unknown origin or type, and we want to special-case treatment for a few known values.

I'd need convincing that this use case is anything more than hypothetical.

Also, you can always put your own test for hashability around it if you want.

-- Greg

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