PEP 308: A PEP Writer's Experience - PRO

[Erik Max Francis]

holger krekel wrote:

> because it easily leads to
> 
>     if obj.method() if hasattr(obj, 'method') else None:
> 
> which you have a harder time to justify as nice, not?

This is yet another red herring.  The use of a conditional operator as
the conditional expression in an if statement is bad style in any
language; that it would be obnoxious in Python is simply an
acknowledgement of that fact, and has no conseqeuences on the argument
of whether a conditional operator should be admitted to Python.

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