Michael Bayer wrote: > also, I challenge your assertion that saying "x and y or z" is a > perlish thing (its a C and Java thing if anything); python 2.5 has just > added the "y if x else z" syntax which is essentially an official > version of the same thing. >
Well, I wasn't really talking about 'x and y or z'. I was actually referring to your HUGE incomprehensible one-liner...it wrapped to three lines in my editor. However, the 'x and y or z' idiom is also discouraged because it is NOT the same thing as 'y if x else z'. If it was the same thing then they wouldn't have added that new syntax (which is really ugly IMO, but I digress) to 2.5. The reason they needed a new syntax is because the 'x and y or z' idiom fails if y evaluates to false. Example: x = True y = '' z = 'else' v = x and y or z assert v == y # ERROR! ~ Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
