On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 6:36 PM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > The fact that a while bunch have people have commented on this subthread > while not recognizing that the semantics of the '?.' and the if blocks are > entirely different suggests the operators are but magnets. > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 5:17 PM Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 6:05 PM Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rod...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> This: >>> >>> v = a?.b >>> >>> ...*implicitly* checks if value is not None [and continues execution]. >>> This: >>> >>> v = a >>> if a.b is not None: >>> v = a.b >>> >>> ...*explicitly* checks if value is not None and continues execution. >>> >> Sorry, lazy reading on my part. I skimmed the expanded form assuming it was correct. I think it should instead read `if a is not None: ...`.
Is that what you're getting at?
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