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

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Jun 21 07:31:35 CEST 2006

At 10:14 PM 6/20/2006 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Hm, so this still doesn't help if you write

case S: ... (where S is an immutable set or sequence) when you meant case in S: ... so I'm not sure if it's worth the subtleties.

Well, EIBTI and all that:

 switch x:
     case == 1: foo(x)
     case in S: bar(x)

It even lines up nicely. :)

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list