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

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Mon Feb 10 00:56:20 EST 2003


In article <yu997kc8ooli.fsf at europa.research.att.com>,
Andrew Koenig  <ark at research.att.com> wrote:
>
>but must confess that I'm growing more in favor of
>
>        if cond: true_expr else: false_expr
>
>even though it looks like an if statement -- or perhaps *because*
>it looks like an if statement.
>
>I don't think there's any real ambiguity from the compiler's
>viewpoint, because "if" denotes a statement only when it is the first
>token of the statement and an expressin otherwise.

You obviously haven't used the interactive interpreter much.
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