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

[Jp Calderone]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:23:58AM -0800, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Jp Calderone wrote:
> 
> >   Sorry, I must have missed that part of the thread :)  I'm a big fan
> > of
> > short-circuit, just not a big fan of adding a ternary operator.  If
> > you need
> > it that badly, write a function (No, it isn't current impossible, it's
> > just
> > odd-looking).
> 
> You can't get short circuiting behavior by writing a function, 

  Yes you can, as you admit below.

> unless
> you want to do obtuse things like alternately eval different passed-in
> strings in the function.
> 

  Jp

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