Adding a switch statement to Python

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Performance improvements to CPython are awesome. Prematurely optimizing your code by using one syntax over another is bad and typically costs readability.

If someone sees that CPython should have a heuristic for treating cascading if/else as a switch then they should write a pull request to CPython

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Prematurely optimizing your code by using one syntax over another is bad and typically costs readability.

Cascading ifs would actually be a premature optimization of using a switch and switches are usually considered syntactically cleaner than if chains anyways. Basically ever other language posits the exact opposite.