PEP 308 - suggestion for generalising the ternary operator

[Terry Reedy]

"Damien Morton" <newsgroups1 at bitfurnace.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1045303854.13593.python-list at python.org...
>
> "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote in message
> > Since I just discovered the alternate form "(not c or x) and y",
which
> > works when x is null rather than non-null, years after noticing
the
> > and/or form. I have to admit that these are not quite as intuitive
as
> > I thought.  (See (PEP-308) Python's Conditional Selection
Operators)
> > One has to look at the definitions of and/or several times and
work
> > out the effect of combinations to fully get how they operate.
>
> got me wondering if "nand" or "nor" operators might help :)

Not obviously.  As I explained in the referenced post, only 'and' and
'or' are selective.  'a nand b' pretty much has to be one of
False,True rather than one of a,b.

Terry J. Reedy