[Python-Dev] Adding C ternary select (a?b:c) to Python?

[Moshe Zadka]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 gvwilson@nevex.com wrote:

> > It (?:) would allow you to incorporate logic into expressions. 
> > There are contexts where only expressions are allowed, such as:
> >   - lambdas
> >   - DTML expr attributes
> > in which I'd very much like to incorporate tests.
> 
> Don't know much about DTML, but believe that being able to put
> conditionals in lambdas would make the latter much more useful.

Giving Guido one less reason to dislike ?: <wink>

Seriously, I disagree with the basic premise of you and Jim: you can
*already* have control structures inside experessions with and/or, so even
for Jim's twisted meanings for "add new functionality to the language"
it's not true.

> Is anything easier with ?: --- yes.

For the reader, for the writer or for the cp4e-newbie learning Python?

cluttering-another-mailing-list-ly y'rs, Z.
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