Bernhard Herzog wrote:
>  Erik Max Francis <max@[...].com> writes:
>  
>  >  The
>  > complete solution to this would probably be a conditional expression,
>  > e.g.:
>  > 
>  > 	variable = (if condition: someValue else: otherValue)
>  > 
>  > eliminating the duplication which can lead to errors.  (Python, of
>  > course, doesn't have such a construct, and the silence after the
>  > conditional expression PEP vote and the long silence thereafter suggests
>  > that it never will.)
>  
>  Guido broke his silence at EuroPython: The ternary operator will not be
>  added to Python.

and there was great joy especially among the people who didn't find an
easy way to vote "no" :-)

Actually Guido made it pretty clear that he will be very careful about
adding language features especially at the syntax level. Moreover, for
Python-3 he plans to throw out some stuff like the string-module ...

cheers,

    holger

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