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

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Aug 18 02:31:10 EDT 2016


Terry Reedy wrote:
> One of the ironies (or puzzles) of Guido's choice is that he once 
> condemned Perl's 'value if cond' as wretched.

I don't think that's the same thing. Perl allows
'statement if cond' as an alternative way of writing
"if (cond) statement'. Nobody has ever seriously
considered allowing two ways to write if *statements*
in Python.

-- 
Greg



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