[Info] PEP 308 accepted - new conditional expressions

[Fredrik Lundh]

Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:

> after Guido's pronouncement yesterday, in one of the next versions of Python
> there will be a conditional expression with the following syntax:
>
> X if C else Y
>
> which is the same as today's
>
> (Y, X)[bool(C)]

hopefully, only one of Y or X is actually evaluated ?

> C and X or Y (only if X is True)

hopefully, "only if X is True" isn't in fact a limitation of "X if C else Y" ?

/... snip comment that the natural order is C, X, Y and that programmers that
care about readable code will probably want to be extremely careful with this
new feature .../

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