Proposed PEP for a Conditional Expression

[Markus Schaber]

Hi,

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> schrub:

> 
>     Markus> What about "(<cond>: return <expr> [else return <expr])"
> 
> All you're saving is a single word and a colon:
> 
>     if <cond>: return <expr>
>     else: return <expr>

But my version doesn't overload the if keyword, the second proposal 
doesn't overload the if and return keywords.

And with requiring the brackets, it should be easier for machine and 
human parsers to distinguish between the if: else: statements and the 
conditional expression.

markus
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