Student intern here. My boss recently asked me to replace several if-statements with preprocessor macros.

In Python.

And apparently, he didn‘t joke.

Made me think of the time a teacher told me to use switch statements as per her requirements. In Python. Whilst this is technically doable through functions, she later asked me if I was familiar with switch() {} as you see on most C style languages.

She just did not wanted to understand that Python did not have that construct. The Dean talked to her stupid ass for me so it was ok.