This ship has sailed and the ternary operator isn't going to change. Seriously, let it go.
I forget the PEP, but this was well discussed long ago when the ternary was added. In general, Python prefers words to punctuation symbols for most of its constructs. So the decision was consistent with that. I do believe that such a choice is friendlier for people learning a first programming language, since it resembles English prose. While I like the C-style operator as well, I think the Python version does the right thing by emphasizing the DEFAULT by putting it first, and leaving the predicate and fallback until later in the expression (right for Pythonic code, not right for other languages necessarily). Either way, the question is moot. On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:42 PM Dom Grigonis <dom.grigo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am not very keen on long discussions on such matter as I do not think > there is much to discuss: there is no technical complexity in it and it > doesn’t really change or introduce anything new. It is only a matter of > opinion & style/design preferences with respect to logical order and > brevity of a statement. > > So I thought, if anyone can be bothered on such question and instead of > writing 3-minute e-mail, would take few seconds to answer 3-question poll. > > https://q5yitzu62.supersurvey.com > > Would be interesting to see if my preference is an outlier or not really. > > > Kind regards, > D. Grigonis > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/NZVLR56BFMBJXE6GN2GWRXIG6ZVAAWZZ/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions.
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