For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression

[Erik Max Francis]

Andrew Koenig wrote:

> I think we agree.
	...
> Again, I think we agree.  I think the behavior should be whatever is
> easiest to describe.

Indeed we do.

> I'd still be willing to live with `x if C else y', because I think
> it's much better than `C and x or y'.

Practically any real conditional operator would be better than `C and x
or y', because `C and x or y' is _wrong_ (as you have so eloquently
pointed out many times in these threads).

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