PEP308 - preference for 'x if c else y' over 'c then x else y'

[Erik Max Francis]

"Colin J. Williams" wrote:

> PS  The simplest scheme, suggested by others, which keeps
> the condition on the left is probably:
> 
>     if (cond, choiceT, choiceF)
> 
> where "if" is a function defined as: ...

This doesn't implement short circuiting, which is the whole purpose of a
conditional operator.  See the PEP; this scheme is explcitly rejected.

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