PEP 308: Pep Update

[David Gausebeck]

>The more this discussion drags on, the less I like any of the proposals.
>The current "and or" trick is looking less good to me, too, but I'm 
>starting to think it's better to place more effort on programmer 
>education about why it's bad than on ways to replace it with something 
>less broken.
>
> "Raymond Hettinger" <vze4rx4y at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> The leading options on the table are:
>> 
>> *     (if <cond>: <expr1> else: >expr2>)
>
>-0
>
>> *     <cond> then <expr1> else <expr2>
>
>What does this look like in an if body?
>    if cond then expr1 else expr2:
>        stuff....
>
>-1
>and no, mandatory parentheses aren't good enough to fix this.

how is

   if (cond then expr1 else expr2):
      stuff...

worse than

   if (if cond: expr1 else: expr2):
      stuff....

?
The first case looks cleaner and just as intelligible to me.

-Dave