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

In Python.

And apparently, he didn‘t joke.

It's... Technically doable...

I had a little mozy on Stack Overflow, this made me chuckle:

"Is there a way? Yes. There's always a way. Should you do it? Probably not."

https://stackoverflow.com/a/...

Does the python to bytecode compiler preprocess math functions at compile time if no dependencies? I don't see anything about this anywhere for python itself. But you could technically do this with a module made with C.

@Demolishun it does "peephole optimization", restructuring loops, calculating constants, etc. So, yes

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.