[Python-Dev] Switch statement

[Nicko van Someren]

On 15 Jun 2006, at 11:37, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> ...
> The lack of a switch statement doesn't really bother me personally,  
> since I
> tend to just write my state machine type code so that it works off a
> dictionary that I define elsewhere,

Not trying to push more LISP into python or anything, but of course  
we could converge your method and the switch statement elegantly if  
only we could put whole suites into lamdbas rather than just single  
expressions :-)

{"case1": lamdba : some-suite-lambda... ,
  "case2": lambda : some-other-suite...
}[switch-condition-expression]()

	Nicko