One of the big problems with most of the proposed spellings is that
question marks to a learner will feel like truthiness tests and not None
tests. I would propose adding a new default statement for the most useful
part of this PEP, the ?= assignment
currently:
if x is None:
x = blah
with `?
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 8:47 AM Rhodri James wrote:
> On 19/07/18 09:33, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > There is a use case I sympathize with: the argument-is-None case. For
> > that I would suggest a simpler form: "A else B" which would evaluate
> > to A if A is not None, otherwise to B (parenthese
