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… ...

The creators of the Python language are mulling a new proposal, PEP 622, that would finally bring a pattern matching statement syntax to Python. ... such as switch/case in C.

Now they can get those features without having to switch to a new Python implementation. Coconut , a newly developed open source dialect of Python, provides new syntax for using features found in ...