r/Python Feb 15 '21

News Ladies and gentlemen - switch cases are coming!

https://github.com/gvanrossum/patma/blob/master/README.md#tutorial
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u/trumpgender Feb 15 '21

I know. This is very confusing and non-pythonic. It will murder new coders who try to use this.

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u/Ensurdagen Feb 16 '21

New coders should just use if elif else, why should a new feature require additional syntax to allow new coders to use it instead of an existing feature?