From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:16:51 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [3.14] gh-133510: Add links to more info for the match statement in FAQ anwser (GH... X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3d6c29158e0d79ed325670e6ccb4592363c2a358;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [3.14] gh-133510: Add links to more info for the match statement in FAQ anwser (GH-133511) (#152655) (cherry picked from commit 77181570da2d6d8f7bfca39f438ef0a893a30567) Co-authored-by: xzkdeng Co-authored-by: sobolevn Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <89152624+StanFromIreland@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych --- diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst index 73c670b0a138..3872a9ab9364 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/design.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst @@ -263,6 +263,8 @@ In general, structured switch statements execute one block of code when an expression has a particular value or set of values. Since Python 3.10 one can easily match literal values, or constants within a namespace, with a ``match ... case`` statement. +See :ref:`the specification ` and :ref:`the tutorial ` +for more information about :keyword:`match` statements. An older alternative is a sequence of ``if... elif... elif... else``. For cases where you need to choose from a very large number of possibilities,