Re: [Python-ideas] PEP 505 (None coalescing operators) thoughts

On 9/29/2015 1:43 PM, Jeff Hardy wrote:

I'd argue the same is true in Python, if a decent way to spell it can be found:

x = foo if foo is not None else "" y = foo or? ""

It's pure syntactic sugar, but it *is* pretty sweet.

as to or? variants -- I'd rather see nor: x = foo nor 'foo was None' Just to add my two cents worth. Emile