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

[Mark Lawrence]

On 17/05/2015 19:07, Charles Hixson 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.

IMHO if a statement is only "occasionally useful" is should not be in 
the Python language.

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Mark Lawrence