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

[Michael Hudson]

Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> writes:

> I'm no Python parser expert,

Python parser is LL(1), but some bits of the grammar are more lenient
than the language spec and get thrown out in the compiler.

You can actually tell when this happens; 

>>> compile("1 = 2; '", "", "exec")

barfs at the illegal token, not the lexically preceding assignment to
literal, even though the interpreter will try and claim that was a
syntax error.

trivia-ly y'rs
M.

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