generator expressions and new ternary operator

[zipher]

It seems the debate over PEP 308 (if-then-else expression) occurred
prior to the arrival of generator expressions.

Mightn't this new latter syntax be the ticket to a "one obvious way"
to write a ternary expression in python?

(foo(i) if i==42 else bar(i)) # i==42 ? foo(i) : bar(i)

zipher

[Steven Bethard]

zipher <zondervanz <at> gmail.com> writes:

Mightn't this new latter syntax be the ticket to a "one obvious way"
to write a ternary expression in python?

(foo(i) if i==42 else bar(i)) # i==42 ? foo(i) : bar(i)

I really shouldn't respond to this because the debate over a ternary operator
already went on *way* too long... But this proposal completely confuses me...

Why would we want something that isn't a generator expression to look anything
like one?

Steve

[Gerrit]

zipher wrote:

It seems the debate over PEP 308 (if-then-else expression) occurred
prior to the arrival of generator expressions.

Mightn't this new latter syntax be the ticket to a "one obvious way"
to write a ternary expression in python?

(foo(i) if i==42 else bar(i)) # i==42 ? foo(i) : bar(i)

No. This has been suggested, and been rejected. And since generator
expressions have nothing to do with ternary expressions, it is not a
reason to re-do the discussion. There are literally thousands of
messages in the archives, including sub-threads discussing exactly this
syntax. By the time you've (re-)read them all, we'll be way beyond
Python 3.0 ;-)

yours,
Gerrit.

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