Loop-and-a-half (Re: Curious assignment behaviour)

[Emile van Sebille]

"Tim Peters" <tim at zope.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1002927732.24673.python-list at python.org...
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> If people sign off on taking "then" as a new keyword, I think the chances
> are good that we could get
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>     x = if e1 then e2 else e3
>

Would this fully short circuit evaluation of e2 if not e1 (and vv)?

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Emile van Sebille
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