[Python-ideas] Pattern Matching Syntax

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/3/2018 9:16 AM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:
> (sorry - my aboe message is about using a dictionary - the "=>" weird
> tokens should j=be just plain ":" -
> the point is that Python açready has syntax to do what is asked)
> 
> On 3 May 2018 at 10:15, Joao S. O. Bueno <jsbueno at python.org.br> wrote:
>> What about instead of
>>
>> number = match x:
>>      1 => "one"
>>      2 => "two"
>>      3 => "three"
>>      10 => "ten"
>>      _ => "anything"
>>
>> number = {
>>      1 => "one"
>>      2 => "two"
>>      3 => "three"
>>      10 => "ten"
>>      }.get(x,  "anything")
>>
>> No magic syntax with blocks starting inside an assignment, just to start with.

This was my initial response until I read the further examples that 
cannot be done with a dict.


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Terry Jan Reedy