On Wed, 09 May 2018 22:48:42 +0100, bartc wrote: > On 09/05/2018 06:44, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Tue, 08 May 2018 22:48:52 -0500, Python wrote: >> >> >> But by the time 1.4 came around, Guido had settled on a clean >> separation between statements and expressions as part of Python's >> design. >> >> That separation has gradually weakened over the years, > > Presumably it's non-existent now, as it seems you can type any > expression as a statement in its own right:
That has always been the case. What I mean is that a few of the pure- statement features have now gained an expression form. >> with the addition of the ternary if operator > > If you mean that this is a kind of statement that can be incorporated > into an expression, then just class it as an operator not a statement. I called it an operator because it is an operator :-) To hopefully be more clear, any expression can be used as a statement (usually pointlessly). But statements (aside from expressions) cannot be used as expressions. There are, however, a small number of statements which have gained an equivalent expression form. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
