For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression

[Erik Max Francis]

holger krekel wrote:

> But
> 
>     <expr>
> 
> is a perfectly valid statement. e.g.
> 
>     somelist.append(1)
> 
> so
> 
>     if something:
> 
> would leave the parser having to look ahead of what this means.

Only if you want to converge the two syntaxes, which is in my opinion
optional.  You could just maintain that the conditional operator as a
standalone statement is illegal; if that's what you really meant, then
you write

	(if C: x else: y)

or write it as

	if C: x
	else: y

or

	if C:
	    x
	else:
	    y

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