[Python-ideas] Yet Another Switch-Case Syntax Proposal

[Oleg Broytman]

While I don't think it's a good addition for Python...

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 02:41:56PM -0700, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2014, at 12:14, "Lucas Malor" <7vsfeu4pxg at snkmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > switch_stmt ::=  "switch" switch_expr "case" case_expr ":" suite
> >    ("case" | "elcase" case_expr ":" suite)*
> >    ["else" ":" suite]
> > switch_expr ::= expression
> > case_expr ::= expression_list
> 
> > - if case_expr is a tuple, the case suite will be executed if switch_expr is a member of the tuple
> 
> So there's no way to switch on a tuple?

   A tuple can be a member of a bigger tuple:

>>> (1, 'b') in ((1, 'a'), (1, 'b'), (1, 'a', 'b'))
True

Oleg.
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