comprehensions was Re: Switch statements again

[Erik Max Francis]

Tim Peters wrote:

> I hope to God nobody is doing that in real life, but then I never
> expected anyone to do
> 
>     (f() and [g()] or [h()])[0]
> 
> in real life either <0.5 wink>.

Well, I hope that in "real life" people aren't really doing this
commonly.  The point of wanting a conditional operator (which I would
gladly welcome in Python, by the way) is readability; this utterly
destroys that.  `p and x or y' (when x is known not to be false) is
barely tolerable, but even that is seriously pushing it.

People don't really commonly use the (p and [x] or [y])[0] trick, do
they?

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