On 2018-07-19 06:38, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
*Its just spelling*. If it is a useful and well-defined feature, we'll get used to the spelling soon enough.
That's not to say that spelling is not important *at all*, or that we should never prefer words to symbols. But if the only objection we have is "this is useful but I don't like the spelling so -1" then that's usually a pretty weak argument against the feature.
But we already have a spelling for the most common case. It is: x = a if a is not None else b That is the only use case of any of these operators that is actually common enough for me to care about --- but it's still not common enough to warrant the creation of a new operator, let alone multiple new operators. -- Brendan Barnwell "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail." --author unknown