Python 'switch' statement.

switch.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Copyright 2018 Michael Ruggiero - This code is released under the MIT License.

Personal Request: If you find this useful, can you reach out to me on GitHub (create an issue, just email me   michael AT ruggiero.co) I'd really love to see/hear how it was used.
Of course, it's MIT so you don't have to; just leave the copyright in-tact as per the license.

LICENSE:
Copyright 2018 Michael Ruggiero

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"""
class Switch (object):
    """    
    FULL DISCLOSURE: This is *NOT* The Pythonic way of doing things.  I was asked not too long ago by a friend if you "could" do a similar implementation of "switch" in Python.
    I am going to challenge myself to get an even closer match to how c/php etc work, but for now - this will do.

    If anyone see's this, I am definitely going to repost this later on with some updates; specifically where this might actually make sense.

    In any capacity, I've yet to see
    """
    def __init__(self, var):
        self.var = var

    def __enter__(self):
        return self

    def __exit__(self, *args):
        return

    def __next__(self):
        return self.next()

    def __getattr__(self, item):
        """
        When going through this, if we are trying to save 2-3 keypresses why not save a few more.
        """
        def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
            return getattr(str(type(self.var)).split("'")[1], item)(*args, **kwargs)
        return wrapper

    def __repr__(self):
        """
        >>> s = Switch('hello')
        >>> print(s)        
        hello
        """
        return self.var


    def case(self, var, val=None, obj=False, dict=False):
        if isinstance(var, (list, tuple)):
            return self.var in var
        elif isinstance(var, str):
            return var == self.var
        elif isinstance(var, object) and obj:
            if hasattr(var, self.var):
                return getattr(self.var, str(var)) == val
        elif isinstance(var, dict) and dict:
            if var in self.var:
                return self.var[var] == val

    def true(self, var):
        """
        Since we are being usless, lets try to shorten a Boolean expression
        """
        return self.var == var

    def false(self, var):
        """
        Since we are being usless, lets try to shorten a Boolean expression
        """        
        return not self.true(var)

    def default(self):
        """
        You could always use if / elif / else - but hey, why not.
        """
        return True

## Usage

answer = "special"

with Switch(answer) as s:
    """
    This is fairly useless but pretty to write; Since you can't use break/continue outside of a loop,
    You can basically either use a while True: then make sure you have a break (or infinite loop you go) OR
    just use elif .. seriously.  This isn't even useful as is.    
    """
    if s.case('python'):
        print('Lovely word, but not going to display')
    if s.case('answer'):
        print('Not quite that imaginitive')
    if s.case('special'):
        print('This is exactly what I wanted to hear!')
    if s.startswith('s'):
        print('This will also show up.')