Conditional operator in Python?

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Tue, 04 Sep 2001 19:52:23 -0700, Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> pisze:

>>     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.

What about:

    if X: Y else: Z

There is no conceptual conflict with the statement if, because when
a statement can be understood in both ways, they have the same effect
anyway. I'm only not sure if it's easy to parse using current Python
parser.

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