Re: match SyntaxError

On 08/12/2025 21:50, Francis Belliveau via Tutor wrote:
> Running through tutorials and I cannot seem to code 
> a "match" statement correctly.

Thanks for posting this because I didn't know about
the match statement type.
But that leads me to assume it's a very new addition
to Python. (looks like it was added in v3.10)

> val = 3
> match val:
>     case 1:
>         print("c1")
>     case _:
>         print("c_")
> 
> I am getting:
>     "SyntaxError: invalid syntax" for the line containing "match 

> Python version is: 3.9.6 (default, Oct 17 2025, 17:15:53) [Clang 17.0.0 (clang-1700.4.4.1)]  on Mac OS 26.1

3.9 doesn't support match, you need 3.10 or newer.
Your code worked ok on my 3.13 build. So my first
suggestion would be to upgrade your Python to the
latest version (3.14 I think)

Thanks for posting, I'd completely missed the addition
of match! :-)

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