On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 19:49, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote:
> match something:
> case 0 | 1 | 2 | _:
> print("Small number or something else")
> case [] | [_]:
> print("A short sequence")
> case _:
> print("Not sure what this is")
> case str() | bytes():
> print("Something string-like")
>
Because the semantics is "first matching clause applies", putting
`case _` anywhere but at the end wouldn't work as expected. The `str()
| bytes()` case above would never match.
Paul
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