[Tutor] Losing the expressiveness ofC'sfor-statement?/RESENDwith example

[Kent Johnson]

Smith, Jeff wrote:
> P.S. This should in no way be construed as undercutting my belief that
> Python should have a case statement, a ternary operator, and
> full-fledged lambdas

Python 2.5 does have conditional expressions that do the work of a 
ternary operator:

x = y if z else w

http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/pep-308.html

Kent