[Python-ideas] PEP 505 (None coalescing operators) thoughts

[Nathan Schneider]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Alexander Belopolsky <
alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> If this was a Python 4 idea, I would suggest repurposing the rarely used
> xor operator: ^ and make x ^ y return the non-None of x and y or None if
> both are None.
>

I find ^ quite useful for sets, and would rather not see it repurposed in
this way.

Another possibility: There could be a binary version of the tilde operator,
which is currently only unary: x ~ y to mean "x if x is not None else y".

But I am also -1 on the whole idea, as I rarely encounter situations that
would benefit from this construct.

Nathan
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