I don't understand PEP 308.

[Peter Hansen]

Tetsuo 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())

Those are statements.  PEP 308 deals with *expressions*.  You can't
directly do the one with the other.