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… ...

This will create a new executable named python.exe. You can then test the new switch syntax by running the unit test: As students in COSC594: Software Development Tools at the University of Tennessee, ...

Structural pattern matching introduces the match/case statement and the pattern syntax to Python. The match/case statement follows the same basic outline as switch/case .

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.