On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 2:04 AM Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote: > def http_error(status): > match status: > case 404: > return "Not found" > case 418: > return "I'm a teapot" > case _: > return "Something else" > > Note the last block: the "variable name" `_` acts as a *wildcard* and > never fails to match.
I can't find it among the rejected alternatives, but was it considered to use "..." as the wildcard, rather than "_"? It carries similar meaning but its special case of "this will never be bound" is simply preventing an error, rather than making one otherwise-valid name special. > Raw strings and byte strings are supported. F-strings are not allowed (since > in general they are not really literals). It won't come up often, but are triple-quoted strings allowed? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OH4UXRFTPXG2JQFW44GZ2E2FGHYAC4LK/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/