What's an alternative to if/elif statements in Python? [duplicate]

Question

My code currently looks something like this:

if option1:
    ...
elif option2:
    ...
elif option3:
    ....

so on so forth. And while I'm not displeased with it, I was wondering if there was a better alternative in python. My script is a console based script where I'm using argparser to fetch for what the user needs.

Answer 1

If 'option' can contain 'one', 'two', or 'three', you could do

def handle_one():
  do_stuff

def handle_two():
  do_stuff

def handle_three():
  do_stuff


{'one': handle_one, 
 'two': handle_two, 
 'three': handle_three}[option]()