Python, for all its power ... to construct and maintain. Each case statement is followed by a pattern to match against. In the above example we’re using simple strings as our match targets ...

So, we’ve got a switch statement with slightly different syntax ... right out of the feature proposal to add the keyword in question to Python: I find an efficiency hit a small price to pay ...

I’m a big fan of Python — the open source programming language. In case you’re wondering, Python is indeed named after the BBC comedy group Monty Python. The language was created around 1990 ...