[Python-Dev] conditional expressions?

[Greg Ewing]

Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>:

> It seems downright weird to me that the syntactic baggage necessary to write
> a conditional expression is greater the the baggage necessary to write an if
> statement (new "then" keyword, parens required for disambiguation).

Has the "x if c else y" idea been totally rejected?
It doesn't require a new keyword, or parentheses to
disambiguate from an if statement.

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