Alternative suggestion for conditional expressions (see PEP 308)
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Thu Jul 15 11:15:39 EDT 2004
neblackcat wrote:
> Would anyone like to comment on the following idea?
> Implement C-like conditional expressions, but in a more
> flexible and "Python-like" way.
[...]
> I therefore suggest a variation on the above
> syntax such as:
>
> sColorName = ?("Black","White")[Color == COLOR_WHITE]
Funky uses of punctuation are about as non-Pythonic as you
can get, so I doubt this idea would make it past the post...
-Peter
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