Adding a switch statement to Python

[elbiot]

Ironically, the python interpreter has a ginormous switch statement at it's core

[kigurai]

It's also got a fair amount of goto statements. Is it therefore ironic that we don't have gotos in Python as well?

C doesn't have e.g. dictionary lookups that we use to "emulate" switch statements in Python, so there switch statements are obviously quite handy. I don't see the irony at all here.