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On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Jordan Bayless <jmbayless@gmail.com> wrote:
> it seems there's a) no case statement (WTF?) and b) I'm limited to how many elif statements I can use.

The latter isn't true; and you're not using elif anyway. With no case
statement, you get pushed to other, better ways of doing things, like
the much simpler way I showed in my previous email - it uses set
membership rather than a series of individual equality checks. Faster,
cleaner, much easier to work with.

ChrisA