[Python-ideas] except expression

[Amber Yust]

As has been noted earlier in the thread when someone proposed except...if -
there are parsing issues due to if..else already being a ternary expression.

On Thu Feb 13 2014 at 1:18:40 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > phone = addressbook[name] except KeyError or "Unknown"
>
> How about
>
>     phone = addressbook[name] except "Unknown" if KeyError
>
> Yes, it puts things in a different order from the except
> statement, but I don't think that's any worse than the
> if-expression being ordered differently from the if-statement,
> and it has the same benefit, i.e. reading more smoothly.
>
> --
> Greg
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