Inline Conditionals?

[JCM]

Antoon Pardon <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> wrote:
> Op 2004-08-26, Alex Martelli schreef <aleaxit at yahoo.com>:
...
>> Peter's right.  And Joshua's example shows how wise the BDFL was in
>> ruling out ternaries: sure, good programmers might occasionally have
>> found good uses for them, but we' have paid that with a LOT of horrid
>> code like that -- I've seen lots like that in C & its ilk, too.

> When using list comprehension not having a ternary operator can be
> a PITA. It is of course possible I miss something but how am I
> supposed to do the following:

>    [ x.property ? foo(x) : bar(x) for x in Somelist ]

def foo_or_bar(x):
   if x.property:
      return foo(x)
   return bar(x)

[foo_or_bar(x) for x in Somelist]


(still, I'd like to see a ternary conditional operator too...)