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

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Mar 9 09:13:32 CET 2006

Morel Xavier wrote:

Steve Holden wrote:

Contrast with the bleeding obvious:

level = 0 if "absoluteimport" in self.futures: level = -1 regards Steve > The issue that spawned the necessity of a ternary operator in the first place was that this syntax is not usable at all in quite a few situations like, say, list comprehensions...

And of course the example I criticized was a list comprehension (not).

The fact that ternary operators improve some features isn't an excuse for using them when they actually decrease readability.

regards Steve

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