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

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Fri Feb 7 17:57:15 EST 2003


On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> The proposed syntax is as follows:
> <expression1> if <condition> else <expression2>

+0 from me.  For the times I've needed such a construct

    <cond> and <expr1> or <expr2>

has generally been sufficient.  I don't see that the new syntax adds enough
to make it worthwhile, but I can ignore it as well as the next person.  I'm
definitely -1 on the chained variation with "elif".

Skip





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