[Python-Dev] switch statement (original) (raw)
Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sat Sep 29 12:04:20 EDT 2018
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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:
https://coconut.readthedocs.io/en/master/DOCS.html#match https://coconut.readthedocs.io/en/master/DOCS.html#case
-- Steve
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