[Python-Dev] Re: Trinary Operators

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
Fri, 07 Feb 2003 17:38:38 +0000


"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy@udel.edu> writes:

> "Guido van Rossum" <guido@python.org> wrote in message
> news:200302071506.h17F6g902453@odiug.zope.com...
>
>> An if-expression is frequently requested, and I expect people will
>> continue to ask for it until I add one :-)
>
> In the past month alone, there have been threee separate threads on
> clp started, I believe, by three separate people asking for or about
> such.  I believe that it is by far the most freqenctly asked-for new
> feature in that arena.

OTOH, if I've been counting properly, there have been almost equally
many asking how to kill a thread from another thread.  Some questions
just don't go away.

Cheers,
M.

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