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Re: [Info] PEP 308 accepted - new conditional expressions
From: Richie Hindle <rjh@cyberscience.com>
Date: Fri Sep 30 2005 - 16:19:02 CEST
Date: Fri Sep 30 2005 - 16:19:02 CEST
[Fredrik]
> > X if C else Y
>
> hopefully, only one of Y or X is actually evaluated ?
Yes. From Guido's announcement at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-September/056846.html:
> The syntax will be
>
> A if C else B
>
> This first evaluates C; if it is true, A is evaluated to give the
> result, otherwise, B is evaluated to give the result.
-- Richie Hindle richie@entrian.comReceived on Sat Oct 15 04:00:16 2005