anything new on the ternary operator?

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Sun Jul 6 22:36:16 EDT 2003


Russell Reagan wrote:

> What is superior about using the proposed ternary operator instead of
> using
> the 'and' and 'or' operators to simulate inline logic?

Because the and/or technique doesn't quite work.  Instead of rehashing
this topic again, I'd recommend you check out the PEP 308 on the
conditional operator which goes through all the details:

	http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0308.html

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