Re: [Python-ideas] exception based conditional expression, similar to if-else conditional expression

Ron Adam wrote:

An additional note, the when you view an exception object in the console it is bracketed by the less than and and greater than signs.  Maybe there is a way to use those in a manner that is consistent with the string repr() returns.

There won't be unless you rule out using "x > y" as an expression that gives the default value. But doing that will make Python's grammar way too complicated, and you're still left with the problem of "x, y = a < b, b > c" which is legal today. It's my understanding that Ruby has run into a lot of ambiguity with its use of | as both a bitwise operator and a part of a block definition. This seems worse.