Question There's no switch statement in Python. Why not?

(Poor) Answer Because there's no need .. you can use a series of if and elif statments. And we can't do it in Python because there isn't a label syntax that would be needed for case.

Better Answer If you come to write some code where a switch would be your natural choice in another language, then you would probably do far better to be using a set of polymorphic methods on various types of objects in Python.

What you might do without objects (a poor switch replacement):

if type == "local":
  name = "localhost"
elif type == "file":
  name = namevar
else:
  name = geturl()

What you would write with classes local, file and remote predefined:

name = current.getname()
(written 2007-05-23 18:09:58)

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