PEP 308: Alternative conditional operator forms

[Erik Max Francis]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

>         I'd prefer to avoid overloading the : (which currently tends
> to not
> only end a type of statement, but /also/ signals the expected start of
> a code block -- even though a one-statement code block /can/ be put on
> the same line).

Lambdas are an obvious exception to this.

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