[Python-Dev] "and" and "or" operators in Py3.0

Brett Cannon bcannon at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 06:11:37 CEST 2005


On 9/19/05, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 20:03, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > While you're at it, maybe we should switch to && and || as well?
> > That's another thing I always mistype when switching between
> > languages...
> 
> Please no!  'and' and 'or' is so readably beautiful.
> 

I completely agree.

> > Also, this proposal needs to be considered together with the addition
> > of a proper conditional operator, like x?y:z.
> 
> Definitely.

Yep.

-Brett


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