Joe Smith wrote: > "Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Jim Jewett wrote: >> >>>I think that adding parentheses would help, by at least signalling that >>>the logic is longer than just the next (single) expression. >>> >>> level = (0 if "absolute_import" in self.futures else -1) >>> >> >>Contrast with the bleeding obvious: >> >> level = 0 >> if "absolute_import" in self.futures: >> level = -1 >> >>or even, if a certain obscurity is desirable: >> >> level = - ("absolute_import" in self.futures) >> > > > Wait a second. > > I may be just a user but if the above is correct then that syntax needs to > die! > There is no logical reason for "XX if YY else ZZ" to be roughly equivlent > to: > "if (YY) then {ZZ} else {XX}" , but AFAICT that is pretty much the way you > expanded that. > I hope I misunderstood, or that there was a typo in a post. > There was a typo in the post.
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