[Python-Dev] conditional expressions?

[Guido van Rossum]

> I guess I've lost track of all the proposals here; what's
> the current main proposal?
> 
>     (if cond then expr else expr)
> 
> with mandatory parentheses?

Almost -- the parentheses can be left out in some cases, e.g.

    x = if 1 then 2 else 3

I agree with Greg Wilson that elif should be added too.

> not too bad -- but I doubt it will save me much time in
> real life...  (probably a net loss: even if I could use this
> from time to time, it's not like I have to use much brain-
> power to spell it out in today's python...)

That's my conclusion too.  I went looking through the stdandard
library for places that could use it and basically didn't find any in
the 15 minutes before I got bored.

So the patch is still there but this won't make it into 2.2.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)