The ternaery operator

[Christian Gollwitzer]

Am 16.03.17 um 04:12 schrieb Stefan Ram:
>   The syntax
>
> a if c else b
>
>   looks as if Guido made it intentionally ugly so that it will
>   not be used?
>  [...]

>   . But now Guido has invented something totally new. Why?

The rationale can be read in PEP 308:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0308/

This should be the first place to go if you want to learn about Python 
language decisions. Asking here will just start the flame fire again.

	Christian