Conditional operator in Python?

[Erik Max Francis]

Emile van Sebille wrote:

> Yes, it comes up.  Generally, except for short-circuiting, the
> solutions
> follow:
> 
> >>> 1 and 2 or 3
> 2
> >>> 0 and 2 or 3
> 3

Yeah, but the short-circuiting exceptions are what make that construct
not worth using, since if used identically as a replacement for a
conditional expression, it won't work when a is 0 (or any other
expression that evaluates to false).

There's a failsafe solution, which is just to use an if: ... else: ...
statement.  I was just wondering why it hasn't crept into Python at some
point, especially since augmented assignments already have, and seem at
the same level of "convenience" (arguably less in fact, since an
augmented assignment is still a statement, not an expression).

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