> That's like looking at language that has both if/then/else statements and switch statements, and asking "do we really need both?". Not sure if that jab was i

> That's like looking at language that has both if/then/else statements and switch statements, and asking "do we really need both?". Not sure if that jab was intended or not, but Python, one of the most popular programming languages in the world, doesn't have a switch statement, probably for this exact reason. Python programmers use chains of if/elif*/else? statements.