Conditional operator in Python?

[Erik Max Francis]

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

> Or
>     if (X) Y else Z
> which looks like statement if without colons (but parens are
> required).

I'm not comfortable with the required syntactic parentheses, since
there's nothing else in the language like that.

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