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The meaning of this (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (37 children)

Partially unrelated to the meme, but I find it almost malicious how some python keywords are named differently from the nearly universal counterpart of other languagues.

This/self, continue/pass, catch/except and they couldn't find a different word for switch so they just didn't implement it.

It's as if the original designers purposefully wanted to be different for the sake of it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Python does have a switch statement now, actually. And yes, they went out of their way to call it something different - match.

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html#match-statements

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

match isn't just equivalent to switch though, so in this case it actually makes sense to call it something different.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is very true. Match statements are much more powerful that switch statements in any other language.

For instance:

matching objects very specifically
if conditions within case statements
pulling variables from inside of the object directly.

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