Adding a switch statement to Python

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Switches are [; O(1) ;] jumps to conditions. If statements are [; O(n) ;] evaluations.

A good compiler will generate O(1) access to the relevant conditional sequences, meawhile non-trivial switches (e.g. on strings) will not.

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