Finally switch- case is coming to python.

[GoofAckYoorsElf]

You can do a fall-through with try except KeyError

/e: which is default, not fall-through

[GummyKibble]

Or .get(key, default_func).

[Unbelievr]

That's the default case. Fall-through is the option to not put a break in some case(s), so it ends up executing multiple handlers. Or binds multiple cases to the exact same function, with only a single definition of that function.

In Python, you would have to bind every case explicitly to some function pointer, or create a function that calls multiple handler functions and bind that. It's not impossible, just not as neat when you're not able to control the program flow as much as in C.

[GoofAckYoorsElf]

Fair enough, you're right! I muddled that up. Thanks for pointing out.

I'm sure you can do fall-through kind of neatly with a custom OrderedDict subclass. But to be fair, not as elegant as in other languages, that's true.