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i would give anything to have a modern switch statement added to python. the justification for not having one does not hold water anymore. we even have enums in

i would give anything to have a modern switch statement added to python. the justification for not having one does not hold water anymore. we even have enums in the standard library but nobody uses them -- afaik -- because without a switch statement, enums are not really that useful...

xapata 7y ago
Why would switch be useful? The interpreter would still need to evaluate in order like if/elif/else.
- adrianN 7y ago
  For similar reason why loops are useful even though we could just jump to addresses.
  - xapata 7y ago
    No, those aren't similar reasons. In this case you're just changing the word `elif` to `case`, with no semantic difference.
jononor 7y ago
A dispatch dictionary covers many of the typical usecases? https://alysivji.github.io/quick-hit-dictionary-dispatch.html https://alysivji.github.io/quick-hit-dictionary-dispatch.htm... Though I have missed switch statements a few times in Python, when implementing state machines - for parsing or sensor/actuator logic. Though these tended to be quite simple and not performance-critical, so a if/elif sequence was just fine.