sure it works if `eggs` has a `__iadd__` method. why shouldn’t it use the
outer local?
but that’s irrelevant. as i said: what i did is closest thing. yet in some
other respects, if/else is closer, as there is no real alternative to a
switch statement in python.
my only point is that apart from being cleaner, a switch block also behaves
differently than a if/else chain, and performs better.
2014-04-26 15:27 GMT+02:00 Chris Angelico
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Philipp A.
wrote: in python, the most similar thing is something like this:
'key1': lambda: eggs += lay_eggs(), #branch 1
Except that lambda doesn't create a code block, it creates a nested function. This example won't work, and nor will anything else that needs to mutate locals; you'd have to declare an out-of-line function (as with branch_2_3) to be able to assign to 'nonlocal eggs'.
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