Proposed new conditional operator: "or else"

[Tim Chase]

On 2014-12-02 23:05, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> >   foo == 42 or else
> 
> 	Has a PERL stink to it... like: foo == 42 or die

This statement actually works in Python and I occasionally use it
when debugging (in the same fashion as one might do printf()
debugging in C).  It raises a NameError and the program dies with a
traceback.  Most frequently, it's to prevent the program from
continuing on to connect to a database and actually make changes.

I've grown up a bit and usually use pdb.set_trace() now, but it's
still in my grab-bag of tools.

-tkc


[sorry for the previous message if I failed to cancel the send that
happened when I accidentally pressed ctrl+enter...typing in the dark]