I am new to python. I have a few questions coming from an armature!

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On Wed, Aug 17, 2016, at 14:27, Terry Reedy wrote:
> That particular syntax was not really considered.  At least 10 versions 
> using 'if', 'then', 'else', and other tokens were.
> 
> They all had the problem of requiring a new keyword such as 'then' or 
> some other innovation.

Why not just if(cond, trueval, falseval), a la Visual Basic?

It's too late to change now, but I'm curious as to whether it was
considered or not.