[andreareina]

Python's syntax precludes works against a lot of things, like first-class lambdas, case (yes it can be emulated with if/elif, but it's not the same, even without fallthrough), pattern-matching in general, or assigning the result of a method-chaining pipeline to a variable.

I use python at $dayjob, and I run into the limitations of whitespace as syntax all the time.

[klyrs]

Yeah, the switch thing is a mindboggle, but the associated pep makes it very clear that/why the problem is quite unsolvable.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3103/

It's quite frustrating as there are a lot of situations where a simple switch would be so nice...