From: William Andrea Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:02:42 +0000 (-0500) Subject: docs: Link `match` statement in tutorial (GH-31396) X-Git-Tag: v3.11.0a6~173 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=35f55cc5c690a97853f1b544aac53574ab755b54;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git docs: Link `match` statement in tutorial (GH-31396) Add a link to the `match` statement from its section in the tutorial. This should be backported to 3.10. [Initially submitted as #31395 but against the wrong branch. Thanks @Mariatta] Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:Mariatta --- diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst index fad874601464..589263edd357 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ at a more abstract level. The :keyword:`!pass` is silently ignored:: :keyword:`!match` Statements ============================ -A match statement takes an expression and compares its value to successive +A :keyword:`match` statement takes an expression and compares its value to successive patterns given as one or more case blocks. This is superficially similar to a switch statement in C, Java or JavaScript (and many other languages), but it can also extract components (sequence elements or