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

[Erik Max Francis]

Jp Calderone wrote:

>   Sorry, I must have missed that part of the thread :)  I'm a big fan
> of
> short-circuit, just not a big fan of adding a ternary operator.  If
> you need
> it that badly, write a function (No, it isn't current impossible, it's
> just
> odd-looking).

You can't get short circuiting behavior by writing a function, unless
you want to do obtuse things like alternately eval different passed-in
strings in the function.

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