PEP 308: "then" "else" for deprecating "and" "or" side effects

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Feb 18 16:10:35 EST 2003


"Mike Orr" <mso at oz.net> wrote in message
news:a66bffb1.0302181223.4160e57 at posting.google.com...
> The fact that people try to use 'and ... or' so broadly for this
shows
> that something is missing.  Only one little tweak is needed: an
> alternative construct that faithfully returns 'b' if 'b' is false.

(not a or b) and c

But I would also like to have one syntax that covers all cases.

Terry J. Reedy






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