PEP-308 left to right, c ? a else b

[Erik Max Francis]

Marco Mariani wrote:

> oops, it's "c ? a else b" or i'll get a thousand replies telling me I
> don't really get it, just like Tim Peters proposing to ban "and" &
> "or"
> from python :-)

If c is the condition expression and a and b are the expressions to
evaluate if it's true or false, respectively, then what you're proposing
is

	C ? x else y

which was proposed as an alternate to the ?: notation very early on in
the threads.

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