[Python-Dev] conditional expressions - add parens?

Alex Martelli aleaxit at gmail.com
Tue Mar 7 04:52:40 CET 2006


On Mar 6, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Jim Jewett wrote:
    ...
> I think that adding parentheses would help, by at least signalling  
> that the logic is longer than just the next (single) expression.
>
>     level = (0 if "absolute_import" in self.futures else -1)

+1 (just because I can't give it +3.1415926...!!!).  *Mandatory*  
parentheses make this form MUCH more readable.


Alex



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