Newbie: switch question in Python

[William J. King]

Hi again! I was reading a tutorial that said
there was no switch statement in Python...and
that I could use a 'conditional' if else etc.
-- so I wrote a switch and would like to know if
its ok to do this or if you have any other better
ideas... Thanks to all for their help in learning
Python in the past 2 weekends....

#Python command 'switch' based
#on a dictionary with commands that
#follow indention rules......

switch = {1: 'for m in range(1,3):\n\t\tprint m\n',
   4: 'for m in range(4,7):\n\t\tprint m\n',
   3: 'for m in range(9,11):\n\t\tprint m\n',
   6: 'print "Key", m, "was found here!"'}

for q in range(0,7):
   try:
      exec switch[q]
   except:
      print "Sorry, not in command_list"