On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > You mention "standard Python idioms." I think this style of > conditional-via-indexing is becoming quite uncommon, and is no longer one of > the standard Python idioms. This is now in the category of "outdated hack."
I think that's probably true. And even in code written for versions of Python than predate the ternary, I think I've seen the idiom "(cond and [if_true] or [if_false])[0]" more often than the one being discussed -- perhaps because it more closely resembles the format of the C ternary -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
