[Python-ideas] Statements vs Expressions... why?

[Cliff Wells]

On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 14:41 -0700, Cliff Wells wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 23:34 +0200, Mathias Panzenböck wrote:
> > If I understand this right, then this would become legal too:
> > 
> > x = if cond(a):
> > 	return b
> 
> return would always be a syntax error outside of a function.
> 
> > 
> > So what value is assigned to x when cond(a) is True, what value when it is
> > False? 
> 
> x = if False: 1 # evaluates to None
> x = if True: 1 # evalutates to True

I meant "evaluates to 1", of course.

Cliff