[Python-Dev] conditional expressions - add parens? (original) (raw)

Joe Smith unknown_kev_cat at hotmail.com
Tue Mar 7 05:26:53 CET 2006

"Steve Holden" <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote in message news:440CAAFB.5060702 at holdenweb.com...

Jim Jewett wrote:

I think that adding parentheses would help, by at least signalling that the logic is longer than just the next (single) expression.

level = (0 if "absoluteimport" in self.futures else -1) Contrast with the bleeding obvious: level = 0 if "absoluteimport" in self.futures: level = -1 or even, if a certain obscurity is desirable: level = - ("absoluteimport" in self.futures)

Wait a second.

I may be just a user but if the above is correct then that syntax needs to die! There is no logical reason for "XX if YY else ZZ" to be roughly equivlent to: "if (YY) then {ZZ} else {XX}" , but AFAICT that is pretty much the way you expanded that. I hope I misunderstood, or that there was a typo in a post.

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