[Python-Dev] conditional expressions - add parens?

[Steve Holden]

Morel Xavier wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
> 
>> Contrast with the bleeding obvious:
>>
>>      level = 0
>>      if "absolute_import" in self.futures:
>>          level = -1
>>
>> regards
>>   Steve
> 
>  >
> The issue that spawned the necessity of a ternary operator in the first 
> place was that this syntax is not usable at all in quite a few 
> situations like, say, list comprehensions...
> 
Sure, and for those uses it's good enough. This isn't really a 
python-dev topic, though, so I'll avoid following up further on this list.

regards
  Steve
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