Code formatting question: conditional expression

[Ethan Furman]

John Posner wrote:
> 
> BTW, from the (admittedly few) responses to my original post, it seems 
> there's some sentiment that "conditional expressions" are a non-Pythonic 
> misfeature. Interesting ...
> 
> -John
> 
> 
> 

I didn't read it that way.  One of the (to me) core points of Pythonic 
is readability.  A conditional expression on one line is fine -- a 
conditional expression on more than one line is less readable than the 
standard if-else structure.

~Ethan~