A way to specify multiply branched conditionals in the Python language—akin to the C switch statement—has been a longtime feature request. Over the years, various proposals have been mooted, but none ...

Python, for all its power and popularity, has long lacked a form of flow control found in other languages—a way to take a value and match it elegantly against one of a number of possible conditions.

Changing variable scope to be anything other than the parent function/class/module declaration would be a massive change. Anything digging around in frame objects would need to learn to poke wherever ...