[Python-Dev] conditional expressions?

[Guido van Rossum]

Even after reading Daniel's passionate plea, if(cond,expr,expr) looks
ugly to me.  It also doesn't solve the parsing ambiguity problem -- it
still can't be allowed in an expression that starts a line because the
parser doesn't know whether it's an if expression or an if statement
without many tokens of lookahead.

So, -1 for if(cond,expr,expr).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)