On Thursday 06 February 2003 10:08 am, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > Guido> I think I've seen the suggestion > > > > Guido> x = (y if y>z else z) > > > > Guido> :-) > > > > That's not bad, even though it looks Perlish :-) > > > > It has the advantage of looking like a list comprehension. > > > > I presume the parentheses would be mandatory. > > Maybe I should write a PEP and let the folks in c.l.py vote on it, > just for fun. (I expect to get about as many yes votes as no votes. :-) > 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. x = (e1 if c1 e2 if c2 e3 if c3 ... else d) x = (e1 if c1 else e2 if c2 else e3 if c3 ... else d) I guess we'd have to call it the n-ary operator. Gary Herron
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