Terry Reedy wrote:
What the *current* version removed from an earlier version is that there was a clear community consensus against the condition-in-the-middle syntax Guido proposed
The way I remember it, condition-in-the-middle was first suggested by others, and Guido expressed dislike for it initially. Then about a year later he suddenly changed his mind and accepted it. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list