Proposed new conditional operator: "or else"

[Ethan Furman]

On 12/02/2014 09:41 AM, Zachary Ware wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
>>
>> Wouldn’t it be neat to write:
>>
>>    foo == 42 or else
>>
>> and have that be an synonym for:
>>
>>     assert foo == 42
> 
> Never going to happen, but I like it!  Perhaps raise IntimidationError
> instead of AssertionError when it fails?

As long as when raising Intimidation, it also roughs up a couple surrounding lines as a warning to the rest of the code...

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~Ethan~

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