[Python-Dev] conditional expressions - add parens? (original) (raw)
Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Mon Mar 6 18:17:55 CET 2006
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Now that we have started to see conditional expressions ... I would like to see them parenthesized. The parens aren't as important as they are with generator expressions, but ... they matter.
From a recent checkin --
level = 0 if "absolute_import" in self.futures else -1Mentally, I can't help parsing that as "level = 0" plus comments that turn out to be code that triggers backracking.
When the expressions (particularly the true case) are longer, it gets even worse.
I think that adding parentheses would help, by at least signalling that the logic is longer than just the next (single) expression.
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