Conditional operator in Python?

[Steven D. Majewski]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Tim Peters wrote:

> 
> That's not confusing.  This is <wink>:
> 
> >>> Number(1,064)
> 1052L
> >>>
> 
> hard-to-believe-that-semantically-significant-leading-zeroes-
>     ever-seemed-like-"a-good-idea"-to-anyone-ly y'rs  - tim
> 

GROAN!

Well -- it worked for all my test cases! 
( Doesn't that sound familiar! )

I'm sure glad I was just giving free advice and not trying to 
do something with it myself!  ;-) 


-- Steve.