at wrote: > I think by approving > > a = b if condition else c > > used to avloind > > if condition: > a = b > else: > a = c > > which is dealing with same psychological problem, Guido also recognizes some > need...
GvR did not introduce the new conditional syntax because he felt it was needed or just to avoid typing a couple of extra lines. He did it just to avoid people keep using the ugly and error-prone "a and b or c" idiom. See the related PEP: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0308/ -- Roberto Bonvallet -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
