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

[Andrew Koenig]

Erik> Georg Mischler wrote:
>> At first I thought "eeek!", but five seconds later it already
>> started to look familiar and intuitive.

Erik> The combination of the punctuation and a keyword still gives me an eek.

Me too.  But seriously, what's wrong with

    x = if y < 5: "Yep" else: "Nope"

I would hope the meaning is immediately obvious...

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