I don't mean to be rude, but I would like to chip in and back up Taine here.
The 'or' operator: - Already unambiguously associated with a logical OR, which is effectively what takes place in this circumstance. Using a different symbol to have the same effect is bound to be confusing to a reasonably large number of people. The '|' character: - Saves one character, but I think it would be easier to miss compared to a keyword which is easy to highlight in an editor. - It's existing usages are very context-specific (between two dict objects, within a regex expression) - using it here I think would start to bring it into the language in a more general way. Because of this, I think a more holistic discussion on its place within Python is appropriate before it is reached for as a bespoke solution. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/FPYVL42BPC3LMK62WWY7J37AKGMXXDSD/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
