[Python-Dev] Trinary Operators (original) (raw)

Jp Calderone exarkun@intarweb.us
Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:47:59 -0500

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On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:39:52AM -0800, Gary Herron wrote:

On Thursday 06 February 2003 10:08 am, Guido van Rossum wrote: [snip] =20 If this is just for fun, why stop with just "trinary"? How about one of the following (depending on ease of parsing)? These look even more like list comprehension. =20 x =3D (e1 if c1 e2 if c2 e3 if c3 ... else d) x =3D (e1 if c1 else e2 if c2 else e3 if c3 ... else d) =20 =20 I guess we'd have to call it the n-ary operator. =20

Or "conditional comprehensions"? :)

Jp

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