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

[Alex Martelli]

Andrew Koenig wrote:
   ...
> the C++ standard, we received a comment from one country that they
> would not approve the standard as long as it allowed for multiple ways
> of achieving the same affect, and to that end this country insisted

Heh -- my favourite retort to this kind of extremism, when I hear it
applied to Python, is to feign agreement and then ask whether they'd
prefer Python to forbid "x+1", or "1+x"...;-).


Alex