Glenn Linderman wrote: > On 7/10/2020 3:15 AM, Gustavo Carneiro wrote: ... > > Therefore, I posit that the style of try...except indentation only > > works where the number of cases is small. > > But for the case of pattern matching, I expect the number of cases to > > be matched to be a lot higher than exception handling cases. Having > > cases to be matched be indented is, IMHO, a nice visual cue to help > > the reader understand where the pattern matching block ends.
> Actually, the current if elseif elseif elseif else, used now because > Python has no switch/match/case, has exactly the same issue as you > describe as a problem with try if there were more cases... and if often > has more cases, just like match will. True > So your concern seems nebulous. You may have wished for extra > indentation.... but it is simple to get more indentation: use 8 spaces > instead of 4. So if you really wanted it, you could have had it. Not so true. if a: ... elif b: ... elif c: ... else: is not valid. In practice, I interpret wanting to indent at a place that doesn't require it as a code smell suggesting I should try to break out a helper function, but ... it does happen. -jJ _______________________________________________ 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/RVMN33GUGKUUFCEEHYCNJPT7MQ7AI5IW/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/