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On 20/03/2016 08:01, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 5:51:21 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> BartC :
>>
>>> On 16/03/2016 11:07, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>>> but I still very much doubt we'll be adding a switch statement --
>>>> it's a "sexy" language design issue
>>>

I did *NOT* write the above, that was me quoting the BDFL from 
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-April/027667.html.

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

Mark Lawrence