Where is CASE?????

[D-Man]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:18:03PM +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
| Steve Purcell wrote:
| > 
| > Chris Richard Adams wrote:
| > > Someone please tell me why I cannot find a CASE statement in the Python
| > > documentation index...
| > 
| > Because there isn't one.
| > 
| > Use if/elif/else instead.
| > 
| > It doesn't sting as much as you might expect.
| 
| Oh but it does ;-)

Why does it?  CASE is little more than a special if-else ladder for
integral types only.  If you are simply trying to get a value, use a
dictionary lookup instead.

-D