Proposed PEP for a Conditional Expression

[Greg Ewing]

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> 
> The 'for'
> and 'if' clauses in a list comprehension do not act like expressions.
> Imagine then the confusion if the '<expr> if <cond> else <expr>', which
> *does* act like an expression, was added to the language.

Maybe some other word than 'if' should be used, then, such as

  <expr> when <cond> else <expr>

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