[Python-ideas] an unless statement would occasionally be useful

[Douglas La Rocca]

it could also be confused as a synonym for

    while not condition:
        ...




> On May 17, 2015, at 4:28 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 17/05/2015 19:07, Charles Hixson wrote:
>> I'm envisioning "unless" as a synonym for "if not(...):"  currently I use
>> 
>> if .... :
>>     pass
>> else:
>>   ...
>> 
>> which works.
>> 
>> N.B.:  This isn't extremely important as there are already two ways to
>> accomplish the same purpose, but it would be useful, seems easy to
>> implement, and is already used by many other languages.  The advantage
>> is that when the condition is long it simplifies understanding.
> 
> IMHO if a statement is only "occasionally useful" is should not be in the Python language.
> 
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> Mark Lawrence
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