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

[Erik Max Francis]

Sean Ross wrote:

> Mostly, I just wanted to avoid a specific edge case someone mention
> much
> earlier in the thread:
> 
>     if x if C else y:
>         ...do stuff...
	[and then other variations with this same edge case]

Sure, it's ugly, but this really is a serious edge case.  I can't recall
ever seeing the conditional operator being used simply in an if
statement a la

	if (C ? x : y)
	    ...

so I really don't know how much usefulness this is example of how ugly
an edge case can get provides.

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