[Python-checkins] Tutorial: specify match cases don't fall through (GH-93615) (GH-94084)
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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4b2d7f3f4e160fdb482eefa377882d1c2c8ccb1b
commit: 4b2d7f3f4e160fdb482eefa377882d1c2c8ccb1b
branch: 3.10
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: ambv <lukasz at langa.pl>
date: 2022-06-21T21:53:07+02:00
summary:
Tutorial: specify match cases don't fall through (GH-93615) (GH-94084)
(cherry picked from commit dd5cf84f245abf84405833320b8f25dbc43b24d2)
Co-authored-by: max <36980911+pr2502 at users.noreply.github.com>
files:
M Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
index f6e013b23e7e5..99a77e7addd77 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
@@ -253,8 +253,10 @@ at a more abstract level. The :keyword:`!pass` is silently ignored::
A :keyword:`match` statement takes an expression and compares its value to successive
patterns given as one or more case blocks. This is superficially
similar to a switch statement in C, Java or JavaScript (and many
-other languages), but it can also extract components (sequence elements or
-object attributes) from the value into variables.
+other languages), but it's more similar to pattern matching in
+languages like Rust or Haskell. Only the first pattern that matches
+gets executed and it can also extract components (sequence elements
+or object attributes) from the value into variables.
The simplest form compares a subject value against one or more literals::
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