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

[Paul Rubin]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:
> Me, I'd ALSO like it to be general enough to pick 1-of-N cases,
> not just 1-of-2.  But somebody else included the further hard
> constraint that in the 1-of-2 cases, the "when true" value
> MUST come before the "when false" one, and that makes the only
> proposal I liked,
>     selector->(when0, when1, when2)
> unacceptable.  Pity:-(.

How about changing the selection operator instead of the paren type:

selector -> (when0, when1, when2)
selector => (whentrue, whenfalse)