[Info] PEP 308 accepted - new conditional expressions

[Sam]

Jaime Wyant writes:

> On 9/30/05, Sam <sam at email-scan.com> wrote:
>> Reinhold Birkenfeld writes:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > 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)]
>>
>> What's wrong with "C ? X:Y"?
>>
>> Aside from ":" being overloaded?
>>
> 
> First thing that comes to my mind is that it is more C-ish (read
> cryptic) than pythonic (read elegant and understandable).

And "foo if bar" is Perl-ish; yet, even Perl has the ? : operators.


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