Alan,
No use beating this dead horse...I guess that's why there are so many languages in the first place. Different people are comfortable with different things. (I did warn you that I like both Lisp and Prolog and only wish I had more of a reason to use them :-)
As an aside, I did try to create a lambda based solution but was unable. Let me know what's wrong:
ftable = { 'a' : lambda: print 'a', 'b' : lambda: print 'b or c', 'c' : lambda: print 'b or c', 'd' : lambda: pass } ftable.get(var, lambda: print 'default case')()
From the docs: lambda arguments: expression print 'a' is not an expression
File "C:\scratch\Script1.py", line 2
ftable = { 'a' : lambda: print 'a',
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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