anything new on the ternary operator?

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Tue Jul 8 06:42:14 EDT 2003


Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> writes:

> There's not much doubt that the conditional operator will not be making
> it into Python in the future, but just because the BDFL has made a
> decree (although a significantly delayed one), it's a little naive to
> think that discussion of it will not continue.  This clause was in the
> PEP ("the subject better not come up again"), but I'm not sure how this
> clause will really have much effect.

Slightly astonishingly, this does really seem to work.  Consider PEP 666.

Cheers,
M.

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