switch

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:53 PM, hong zhang <henryzhang62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> List,
>
> Python does not have switch statement. Any other option does similar work?
> Thanks for help.
>


Use a dict instead, where the keys are the different cases and the
values are usually callable objects (such as functions)
options = {"a" : do_a, "b",do_b, "c", do_c}

option = "a"

try :
    options[option]()
except KeyError :
    do_default()





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