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

[Hans Nowak]

Laura Creighton wrote:

> Most of the people who don't care will also not be posting.  Or
> voting. They're probably not reading comp.lang.python, either.  I
> remember when 2.0 came out and people found out about string methods.
> A whole bunch of them came back to post articles about how they
> thought the new join syntax was really awful and ugly.  They only
> cared after it got in, but enough to complain a lot.

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.

(ducking for cover, etc :-)

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