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

[Andrew Koenig]

Samuele> There are ~100 instances of that in the std lib code, see Tim
Samuele> Peters post or the std lib directly, is for all to see.

Right.  So all those uses give the impression that the (cond and x or y)
technique works in all cases--which it doesn't.

If (cond and x or y) always worked, I don't think I would care about
introducing if-then-else expressions at all.

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Andrew Koenig, ark at research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark