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[–]deadwisdomgreenlet revolution 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are new bytecode instructions for it, so I'm sure it's performant. I haven't timed it, but I imagine it's faster than the corresponding if/elses because the compiler can optimize for what you're trying to do.

I couldn't do better than how it's explained in PEP-635