On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:01:43 +1000, James Mills wrote: >> That's still not equivalent. "return expr or None" will always >> terminate the function. The OP's request was for something which would >> terminate the function if and only if expr is non-false. > > The OP did not state this at all. > There was never any mention of early termination > of the function iif expr was True.
What the OP actually said was: > I propose the following syntax: > > return? expr > > be expanded to > > _temp = expr > if _temp: return _temp It should be abundantly clear that this only returns if the expression is considered true, otherwise it continues on to the following statements. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
