[Python-ideas] an unless statement would occasionally be useful

[David Mertz]

This exists and is spelled 'not' in Python :-)
On May 17, 2015 11:16 AM, "Charles Hixson" <charleshixsn at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> I'm envisioning "unless" as a synonym for "if not(...):"  currently I use
>
> if .... :
>     pass
> else:
>   ...
>
> which works.
>
> N.B.:  This isn't extremely important as there are already two ways to
> accomplish the same purpose, but it would be useful, seems easy to
> implement, and is already used by many other languages.  The advantage is
> that when the condition is long it simplifies understanding.
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