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

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sat Sep 29 12:04:20 EDT 2018


On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 02:10:00PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:

There's already a rejected PEP about a switch statement: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3103/. There's no point bringing this up again unless you have a new use case.

There have been several promising posts to python-ideas about the much more powerful idea of a "match" statement. Please search for those before re-posting on python-ideas.

The Coconut transpiler also includes some interesting ideas for a match and case statement:

http://coconut-lang.org/

https://coconut.readthedocs.io/en/master/DOCS.html#match https://coconut.readthedocs.io/en/master/DOCS.html#case

-- Steve



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