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On 16/03/2016 11:16, BartC wrote:
> On 16/03/2016 11:07, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> I don't want to discourage you too much, but I think that adding a
>> switch statement comes *very* low on the list of improvements we would
>> like to make in Python 3.5.
>>
>> We should probably focus on speed ...
>
> OK, you're coming round...
>

No, those were the words of the BDFL, not me.  Further, please do not 
deliberately cut words to change the context. The original said quite 
clearly "We should probably focus on speed (or aspects of it, like 
startup)...".

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence