[Python-Dev] Trinary Operators

[Guido van Rossum]

> You might consider correlating votes with people who like lambda,
> because that's where I think the feature is really useful.

Good point.

> Which implies, by the way, that parentheses shouldn't be mandatory
> in the following context:
> 
>    (lambda x, y, z: y if x else z)
> 
> Or, for that matter, in
> 
>    (lambda x, y, z: f(x, y if x else z))

But does

    x, y if p else z

mean

    x, (y if p else z)

or

    (x, y) if p else z

???

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