[quietbritishjim]

The article links to PEP 3103, which is a proposal to add a switch statement to the language. Interestingly, it was written by Guido himself, which you'd usually expect to give a pretty good chance of being accepted, especially since he was the sole decider of what would be accepted at the time! The rejection notice says simply:

> A quick poll during my keynote presentation at PyCon 2007 shows this proposal has no popular support. I therefore reject it.

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

[hnlmorg]

I saw that but 'No popular support' doesn't really explain the 'why' part of why Python developers don't want a switch statement.