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

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Sat Feb 8 01:14:03 EST 2003


Anthony Baxter wrote:

> I was sort of ambivalent about this until I saw the examples section:
	...
> This is utterly nasty, and _painful_ on the eyes and brain to read
> and parse.

They're not examples of how the conditional operator should be used in
the real world.  They're simply an illustration of the edge cases in
terms of syntax.

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