[Python-ideas] If branch merging

[Ethan Furman]

On 06/07/2015 07:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> It's not like elif, which is uneffected by any previous if or elif
> clauses. Each if/elif clause is independent.

This is simply not true: each "elif" encountered is only evaluated if all the previous if/elif lines failed, so you have to pay attention to those previous lines to know if execution will even get 
this far.

>  The test is always made
> (assuming execution reaches that line of code at all),

Exactly.

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~Ethan~