comprehensions was Re: Switch statements again

[Erik Max Francis]

Tim Peters wrote:

> The prospects for a conditional operator are dim.  Guido was
> interested
> enough to implement it in late 2001, but eventually rejected his own
> patch:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/sf/471421

Pity that (and thanks for the reference).  There is always hope, though;
I seem to recall him at first being strongly opposed to adding bool to
the language as well (which I also gladly welcomed).  In fact, right
from the start of using Python, a conditional operator and Booleans were
the only tangible things I truly wished for.

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