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

[Michele Simionato]

Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote in message news:<3E455707.84A721BA at alcyone.com>...> 
> 	(if cond: expression1 else: expression2)
> 
> That really doesn't strike me as so bad.  Particularly if most of the
> objections center around overloading the meaning of if, or the
> awkwardness of reading the proposed x if p else y structure not reading
> left-to-right, maybe this makes sense after all?

This would me acceptable to me, even if it is not the most elegant 
proposal I have seen. Too many parenthesis and colons for my taste,
but it has the advantage of requiring no new notation, at least.

                  M.