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On 4/12/2011 2:25 PM, zildjohn01 wrote:
> Wow. Two dozen replies, the majority of which are arguing over whether
> the end of my snippet is reachable. I thought the behavior of if
> statements was well-established by this point.
>
> Regardless of James Mills's coding prowess, I suppose I should follow
> his advice and repost this to the python-ideas list instead.

I would not. I am 99.99% sure both the syntax (introducing '?') and the 
idea will be rejected.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy