I don't understand PEP 308.

[Carl Bevil]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:39:07 +0000 Tetsuo <member16943 at dbforums.com> wrote:

> 
> I saw there's a debate over it, and decided to read it.  I didn't read
> much, but what I can understand is that it proposes an if-then
> statement.
> 
> So how is it different from what's there already? You know...
> 
> if a == abs(g):
> ....print "a = abs(" + str(g) + ")"
> else:
> ....print zlib.compress(str(locals())
> 
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I'm guessing it will allow you to do things like you can in C:

in x;
bool b;
..
printf("The value of b is %s\n", b ? "true" : "false");
..

b = (x == 42) ? true : false;

.. that sort of thing.  Now, whether or not this is "good coding style" is up 
for debate, but I'm not gonna go there.  :-)

Carl