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

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sun Jun 25 00:54:57 CEST 2006


At 03:49 PM 6/24/2006 -0700, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

Cases values must be ints, strings, or tuples of ints or strings.

-1. There is no reason to restrict the types in this fashion. Even if you were trying to ensure marshallability, you could still include unicode and longs. However, there isn't any need for marshallability here, and I would like to be able to use switches on types, enumerations, and the like.



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