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IMHO switch is horrible construct i'd rather see ML style pattern matching

Pattern matching without TCO would leave me feeling deceived

Switch makes sense in really low level languages like C where it becomes a branch table (and allows things like Duff's device), but it has no place in higher-level languages. Fallthrough, while very occasionally useful, is bug prone and weird (breaks the "principle of least surprise" in a major way). Python made the right call not including it.

So do it like "match" in Rust. Fallthrough certainly seems un-Pythonic. It seems worthwhile to ditch it in favor of pattern matching.

It also seems un-Pythonic to have to implement something in a less-obvious way. Choosing an action based on a one item from a set of possible inputs means either a dict that maps to lambdas or function variables or a big chain of if-else. Neither of those options are optimal.

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