[Python-Dev] Adding a conditional expression in Py3.0

[Edward C. Jones]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

file = os.path.abspath(file) if file else '?'
...

These are all unreadable. In C "a ? b : c" is not used very often. A 
quick check of the Python source found 476 occurences.

-1 to conditional expressions.