[Info] PEP 308 accepted - new conditional expressions
Richie Hindle
rjh at cyberscience.com
Fri Sep 30 10:19:02 EDT 2005
[Fredrik]
> > X if C else Y
>
> hopefully, only one of Y or X is actually evaluated ?
Yes. From Guido's announcement at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-September/056846.html:
> The syntax will be
>
> A if C else B
>
> This first evaluates C; if it is true, A is evaluated to give the
> result, otherwise, B is evaluated to give the result.
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Richie Hindle
richie at entrian.com
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