Conditional operator in Python?

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

6 Sep 2001 17:25:04 GMT, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak at knm.org.pl> pisze:

>     if X: Y else: Z
> 
> There is no conceptual conflict with the statement if, because when
> a statement can be understood in both ways,

Well, it can't. Statement 'if' is written as if 'else' started a
separate statement. I still don't know how the CPython's parser is
implemented and how easily it would deal with that, but each 'if'
is unambiguously either a statement or an expression. (The expression
variant must have an 'else'.)

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