[Python-Dev] switch statement

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 02:10:00PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> There's already a rejected PEP about a switch statement:
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3103/. There's no point bringing this
> up again unless you have a new use case.
> 
> There have been several promising posts to python-ideas about the much more
> powerful idea of a "match" statement. Please search for those before
> re-posting on python-ideas.

The Coconut transpiler also includes some interesting ideas for a match 
and case statement:

http://coconut-lang.org/

https://coconut.readthedocs.io/en/master/DOCS.html#match
https://coconut.readthedocs.io/en/master/DOCS.html#case


-- 
Steve