[Python-Dev] (try-except) conditional expression similar to (if-else) conditional (PEP 308)

[Kristján Valur Jónsson]

Unless I am very much mistaken, this is the approach Ruby takes.
Everything is an expression.  For example, the value of a block is the value of
The last expression in the block.

I've never understood the need to have a distinction betwen statements and expressions, not when expressions can have side effects.  It's like that differentce between procedures and functions in pascal that only serves to confuse

K
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> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] (try-except) conditional expression similar
> to (if-else) conditional (PEP 308)


> Wouldn't it be smarter to fix the issue once and for all by looking
> into making Python's compound statements (or even all statements
> without restrictions) expressions that can return values in the first
> place? Now I don't know if it's actually possible, but if it is the
> problem becomes solved not just for try:except: (and twice so for
> if:else:) but also for while:, for: (though that one's already served
> pretty well by comprehensions) and with:.
>