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

[Andrew Dalke]

David Eppstein:
> The question in these cases is not whether these people would find the
> correct construction -- obviously they wouldn't else they would use it
> in place of the ternary.  The question is, without the ternary, what
> even worse construction would they use instead?

Ahh, good point.

For the two examples I gave, probably either

if x < y:
  a = x
else:
  a = y

(perhaps encapsulating that in a 'min' function ;)

And for  'hex_c = "0123456789ABCDEF"[i]'

  if i < 10:
    hex_c = chr(48 + i)
  else:
    hex_c = chr(55 + i)

or maybe

  hex_c = chr(48 + i + (7 * (i>10)))

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com