case/switch statement?
Martin Miller
ggrp1.20.martineau at dfgh.net
Wed Jun 22 16:14:19 EDT 2005
Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Terry> Yeah, and I find this even more so:
>
> Terry> case = {
> Terry> 5: do_this,
> Terry> 6: do_that,
> Terry> }
> Terry> case.get(x, do_default)()
>
> Terry> Which is looking pretty close to a case statement, anyway.
>
> Sure, modulo namespace issues.
>
> Skip
The namespace issue alluded to doesn't exist when using the very
similar approach suggested earlier in this thread by Andrew Durdin --
shown again below in a [very] contrived example illustrating access to
the local namespace:
greeting = "Hello there, "
x = 2
exec {
1: """greeting += 'Tom'""",
2: """greeting += 'Dick'""",
3: """greeting += 'Harry'""",
}.get(x, """greeting += 'Unknown'""")
print greeting
Martin
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