PEP308: Yet another syntax proposal

[Bengt Richter]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 19:37:42 GMT, Andrew Koenig <ark at research.att.com> wrote:

>holger> right.  in which case learning about and/or (which you have to
>holger> anyway) often helps.  Because of the "y is false" problem in
>holger> "x and y or z" there are some cases where it doesn't fit.  Do
>holger> we have real code examples for them?
>
>Yes -- as I've noted elsewhere in this discussion, Lib/unittest.py
>actually contains a (minor) bug because it uses and/or where it
>doesn't fit.  The code is on lines 618-619:
>
>        self.stream.writeln("Ran %d test%s in %.3fs" %
>                            (run, run == 1 and "" or "s", timeTaken))
>
with my latest, that would be spelled

         self.stream.writeln("Ran %d test%s in %.3fs" %
                             (run, run == 1 -> "" -> "s", timeTaken))

Regards,
Bengt Richter