PEP 308: ternary operator

[Erik Max Francis]

phil hunt wrote:

> No, it suggests that we should we should make things easy for the
> majority of python programmers who also use other languages. Python
> will never become C or Perl, it will always be Python. However,
> Python shares lots of features with these langauges (and other
> langs) already, for example: use of "if" keyword to denote
> conditionals, use of symbols "0123456789" to denote numbers, use of
> "+" to denote addition, use of "=" to denote assignment, etc, etc.

And more than that, Python really takes a lot of cues from the C family
of languages (as do many modern high-level languages).  Take == vs. =,
or a 0x prefix for hexadecimal literal and a 0 prefix for an octal
literal, etc.

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