[Python-Dev] Adding C ternary select (a?b:c) to Python?

[Vladimir Marangozov]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> Dear developers,
> 
> Eric Raymond has sent me the following patch, which adds conditional
> expressions to Python.  I'd like to hear opinions on whether this is a
> good thing to add to Python, and whether this is the right syntax.
> 

Although Eric's patch is cute, I think this language shortcut is
unnecessary for Python. I'd support a do/while shortcut though ;-)
It's more popular and would fit "naturally" into the language for
most programmers.

Overall, it seems to me that the next major version of Python needs
to be cleaned, instead of being enriched. Both the language and the
internals. We have enough experience already for moving in this
direction. (I'm not speaking about new packages/libs or additional
core facilities, like Unicode, that need to integrated).  

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