Using something other than ';' to separate statements

Ivan Van Laningham ivanlan at pauahtun.org
Wed Mar 30 15:39:22 EST 2005


Hi All--

Michael Hoffman wrote:
> 
> Jaime Wyant wrote:
> 
> > # This won't work
> > if a > 5: print "a > 5";else print "Doh"
> 
> This will:
> 
> ["Doh", "a > 5"][a > 5]
> 
> I highly discourage using it though--it's somewhat obtuse.
>

Bad Michael.  Bad, bad Michael.

Metta,
Ivan
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