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

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Mon Feb 10 02:48:58 EST 2003


Roman Suzi wrote:

> In Python, expression is a standalone statement. So in case of
> 
> if expr1: expr2 else: expr3
> 
> the parser will notice the difference only at "else".

He knows that.  And he's saying it's okay that that's a SyntaxError.

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