On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/06/2014 12:07 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> This has a slight oddity of parsing (in that an expression can >> normally have a comparison in it); if you really want to use the >> result of a comparison inside a case block, you'd have to parenthesize >> it. But it's easy enough to explain to a human. > > This syntax is almost identical to the if/elif/else syntax, though, no?
Like I said, it's a short-hand for an if/elif tree, nothing more. Most of the proposals have effectively been that anyway. There are differences, though; the case target gets evaluated only once, for instance. I'm not pushing strongly for its addition to the language. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
