Voting for PEP 308 (was Re: For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression)

[Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)]

> From: Hans Nowak [mailto:wurmy at earthlink.net]
> 
> Hmm, what if bools grew an if() method?  We could then write:
> 
>    z = (x == y).if(whentrue, whenfalse)
> 
> This strikes me as much more elegant than the other proposals.

This seems like a very elegant and pythonic proposal. It does however suffer from two problems:

1. It doesn't short-circuit. As such it could not be an alternative for PEP 308 (which specifies short-circuiting).

2. Can't use `if` as a method name. But perhaps `test`? Or something along those lines?

I would *seriously* encourage you to write up a PEP for this - ASAP. This is the *only* ternary proposal I have seen yet that I would support.

Tim Delaney