On Sep 21, 2015, at 01:48, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote: >>>>> retries = default else cls.DEFAULT > > I kinda like this if-less else syntax for the symmetry with else-less > if. How do you parse this: a if b else c else d Feel free to answer either as a human reader or as CPython's LL(1) parser.