[Info] PEP 308 accepted - new conditional expressions
Rocco Moretti
roccomoretti at hotpop.com
Fri Sep 30 14:53:41 EDT 2005
Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
> 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
Any word on chaining?
That is, what would happen with the following constructs:
A if B else C if D else F
A if B if C else D else F
The first one is the tricky bit - it could be either
(A if B else C) if D else F
or
A if B else (C if D else F)
I'd expect the former from left-> right semantics, but reading the
unparenthesized form, I'd see "A if B else ..." note that B is true, and
conclude the expression evaluated to A (which would be wrong if D is false).
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