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

Alex Martelli aleaxit at gmail.com
Tue Mar 7 04:52:40 CET 2006

On Mar 6, 2006, at 9:17 AM, 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)

+1 (just because I can't give it +3.1415926...!!!). Mandatory
parentheses make this form MUCH more readable.

Alex

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