In hindsight, I am disappointed with the choice of conditional syntax. I know it's too late to change. The problem is
y = some thing or other if x else something_else When scanning this my eye tends to see the first phrase and only later notice that it's conditioned on x (or maybe not notice at all!). Particularly if 'some thing or other' is long or complicated. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
