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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:38:58 +0200
From: Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de>
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On 06/30/2012 08:39 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Peter Otten wrote:
> 
>> If you spell it
>>
>> def is_valid_password(password):
>>     return mud.minpass <= len(password) <= mud.maxpass
>>
>> it is even easier to see that you are performing an interval check.
> 
> This is probably a tautology around here, but *what* *a* *great* 
> *programming* *language*.
> 

Personally, I don't like this feature of the language. I find a ternary
operator that uses symbols that can also be binary operators confusing
and inconsistent with the way operators usually work/the way terms are
usually associated.

It has the charm of being something you'd "naturally" write in the
context of non-programming mathematics, at the cost of being very odd
indeed in the context of programming in general and Python in particular.