Dictionary or If statements, Jython

Question

I am writing a script at the moment that will grab certain information from HTML using dom4j.

Since Python/Jython does not have a native switch stat

Answer 1

With your code you're running your functions all get called.

handlers = {
'extractTitle': extractTitle, 
'extractMetaTags': extractMetaTags
}

handlers[type](dom)

Would work like your original if code.