Rejoice! Gone are the long chains of if…else statements, because switch statements will soon be here — sort of. What the Python gods are actually giving us are match statements. match s… ...

After many proposals to add a switch/case-like syntax to Python failed, a recent proposal by Python language creator Guido van Rossum and a number of other contributors has been accepted for ...

such as switch/case in C. It allows one of a number of possible actions to be taken based on the value of a given variable or expression. While Python has lacked a native syntax for pattern ...