PEP 308: A PEP Writer's Experience - PRO

[Andrew Koenig]

Samuele> As you might know the "cutest" (my take) general solution to
Samuele> the problem in current Python (performance aside), has been
Samuele> posted by Gerald S. Williams to python-dev:

Samuele> ife = lambda box: box[0]

Samuele> z = ife(cond and [x] or [y])

Samuele> if Python had had a ternary cond op, I would never have seen
Samuele> that <sniff>.

You're right -- that's about the nicest workaround I've seen.

But I think I can improve it a tiny bit:

        ife = list.pop

Shorter and faster, yes?

-- 
Andrew Koenig, ark at research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark