FW: [Python-Dev] conditional expressions?

[Paul Prescod]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> 
> m.faassen at vet.uu.nl (Martijn Faassen) writes:
> >   * list comprehensions are signalled by the fairly clear [ and ].
> >     Conditional expressions use the already fairly strongly
> >     overloaded ( and ). Of course I guess they wouldn't really
> >     overload them further, but..
> 
> A conditional expression analogy to list comprehensions would be
>   x = (a if b else c)
> rather than
>   x = if a then b else c

The former actually reads better in English:

unit is meters if metric else feet

versus

unit is, if metric, meters, else feet

 Paul Prescod