PEP 308 - suggestion for generalising the ternary operator

[Erik Max Francis]

Damien Morton wrote:

> I tend to think that using the colon in a conditional selection
> expression
> makes it hard to distinguish from a dictionary
> 
> Any comments on the original proposed form? Is the question mark as an
> operator too scary?

I guess if the colon makes it look too much like a dictionary (which I
agree it probably does), a question mark would probably be better.  I'm
not really _for_ the idea, it just doesn't offend me.

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