On Sep 17, 1:01 pm, Andreas Waldenburger <use...@geekmail.invalid>
wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:20:33 -0400 AK <andrei....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I also like this construct that works, I think, since 2.6:
>
> > code = dir[int(num):] if side == 'l' else dir[:-1*int(num)]
>
> I wonder when this construct will finally start to look good.
I don't know if it'll ever look good, per se, but it looks better when
it's used in rule-exception sort of case:
something = rule if condition else exception
Then the "tacked-on" feel the "if condition else exception" part works
because it is actually tacked on.
Apart from occasions like this and throwaway one-liners I use regular
if-then statements. If Python had added the C-like a ? b : c, then
I'd use it a lot more, since that version is not inherently
unbalanced.
Carl Banks
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