On Feb 7, 4:25 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:59:13 +0100, Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > > Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > >> Personally, between > > >> * foo if foo else bar > >> * foo or bar > > >> I prefer the second. Maybe it could be spelt > > >> * foo else bar ? > > > How about > > > val = foo rather than bar > > > If that is not clear and obvios, I don't know what is. ;) > > In English, the expression "foo rather than bar" means "bar is never > chosen, foo is always chosen".
Ok, the fix is easy: val = BETTER foo THAN bar ;-) Cobol-strikes-back-ly yours, George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list