On 8/28/07, Stefan Niemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > sorry that I'm relatively new to Python. But the syntax and semantics of > Python already fascinate me, because I'm familiar with functional languages > like Haskell. > > Is there a pattern matching construct in Python like (head : tail), meaning > 'head' matches the first element of a list and 'tail' matches the rest? I > could not find this in the Python documentation. > > Regards, > Stefan > >
Python does not have haskell like pattern matching. Things are written and done in a different way. When working with lists, Python has a slice syntax (which is rather more powerful than Haskells limited head->tail linked list syntax) that you can use to chop a sequence up into various parts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
