Thoughts on new grammar rules (PEP 284 in particular)

[Erik Max Francis]

Steve Horne wrote:

>   if 0 <= x < 10 :
>     print "x is in range"
> 
> There is a big problem with this, of course - this is already legal
> Python, but the semantics aren't what I intend.

This should behave the way you expect.  The conditional would be
executed if 0 <= x and x < 10.

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