some data on the debate [Python-Dev] Update to PEP308: if-then-else expression

[Guido van Rossum]

> the only point I was maybe trying to make with the data, is that it
> is very difficult to distinguish - just reading the threads - in
> this case of USENET debate whether conseus is building or the same
> people are writing the same thing (which they like) very often.

I'm glad I don't have to read all that. :-)

> So updating the PEP is a risky operation <shrug>.

Yeah.  In the end it's still my decision.

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