[pygtk] Key event handling and Pythons lake of switch statement

[Niklas Koep]

Just to quote the Python
docs<http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/controlflow.html#if-statements>
on
the subject: "An if ... elif ... elif ... sequence is a substitute for the
switch or case statements found in other languages."

Regards


2013/1/27 David Ripton <dripton at ripton.net>

> On 01/27/2013 03:24 PM, Christian Mallwitz wrote:
>
>  Where in C you would have something along the lines of:
>>
>>   switch (event->keyval) {
>>     case GDK_Left: ...
>>     case GDK_BackSpace: ...
>>     ...
>> }
>>
>> What is your preferred code style to handle that in Python? How about
>> more than one keyval triggering the same action?
>>
>
> If it's a small number of cases, just use if/elif.  (With "or" for the
> multiple value case.)
>
> If it's a large number of cases, you can use a dict, with functions or
> methods as the values.
>
> --
> David Ripton    dripton at ripton.net
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