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

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 6:28:06 AM UTC+12, Terry Reedy wrote:
>
>> Why couldn’t they have adopted the standard C
>>     syntax, as used in a whole bunch of other C-derivative languages?
>>         cond ? trueval : falseval
> 
> 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.

What was wrong with adopting the C syntax? That would have introduced “?” as a new symbol. What impact what that have had on existing Python code? None that I can think of.