On 4/20/05, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > PS. a side effect of the for-in pattern is that I'm beginning to feel > > that Python > > might need a nice "switch" statement based on dictionary lookups, so I can > > replace multiple callbacks with a single loop body, without writing too > > many > > if/elif clauses. > > PEP 275 anyone ? (http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0275.html) > > My use case for switch is that of a parser switching on tokens. > > mxTextTools applications would greatly benefit from being able > to branch on tokens quickly. Currently, there's only callbacks, > dict-to-method branching or long if-elif-elif-...-elif-else.
I think "match" from Ocaml would be a much nicer addition to Python than "switch" from C. -jj -- I have decided to switch to Gmail, but messages to my Yahoo account will still get through. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
