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Subject: Re: Feature suggestion -- return if true
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>> This is only true if n < 5.=C2=A0 Otherwise, the first returns None and =
the
>> second returns False.
>
> Which is why I said:
>
> return expr or None
>
> But hey let's argue the point to death!

Ok ;-)

I think the point is that OP doesn't want to return *at all* if expr
is False - presumably because there are further statements after the
proposed 'conditional' return.

Anyway,

  return? expr

isn't very pythonic - so how about one of these?

  return expr if True
  return expr else continue

I kid, I kid ...

 -[]z.