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

[Eric Stechmann]

I'm not sure the benefits are worth the additional complication.  It might 
be convenient in some circumstances, but that's not necessarily a good 
reason to implement it.

We're all familiar with languages that have grown to the point where they 
are ugly, hard to explain or even comprehend, and, I would assume, 
difficult to implement.  Python is _not_ that.  It's not perfect, but it 
has qualities that set it above so many others:  it is simple, yet powerful 
and has marvelous clarity.

Implementing concepts in the name of convenience is a slippery slope.  As 
someone once said, "Add little to little and soon you have a big pile."

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Eric

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