[Python-ideas] Does jargon make learning more difficult?

[Abe Dillon]

[Chris Angelico]

> I have to defer to someone who knows in more detail here, but the
> parser will look ahead one "token", whatever a token is. (Technically
> it doesn't backtrack, it looks ahead - same difference.) In order for
> the ternary-if to work, the expression before the if has to be of a
> more restricted type than just "any expression" (for instance, you
> can't put a lambda function there, unless you parenthesize it).


Interesting. I really need to try delving into the nuts and bolts of Python.
I didn't know that about ternary expressions.

I don't know if you saw my recent discussion with Jonathan Fine, but he
brought up some good points too.
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