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

[Dale Strickland-Clark]

Paul Rubin <phr-n2003b at NOSPAMnightsong.com> wrote:

>Dale Strickland-Clark <dale at riverhall.NOTHANKS.co.uk> writes:
>> >An example:
>> >
>> >    def get_arg(self, default=1):
>> >        """Return any prefix argument that the user has supplied,
>> >        returning `default' if there is None.  `default' defaults
>> >        (groan) to 1."""
>> >        if self.arg is None:
>> >            return default
>> >        else:
>> >            return self.arg
>> 
>> Yuck! An pointless function that boils down to:
>> 
>> self.arg or default
>> 
>> in current parlance.
>
>Actually wrong.  
>
>  self.arg or default
>
>will incorrectly give the default, if self.arg is 0 or the empty
>string or an empty dict, etc.  A conditional expression is really the
>right thing here.

Yup. I goofed.

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Dale Strickland-Clark
Riverhall Systems Ltd