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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 17:05:49 +1000
Subject: Re: How is this evaluated
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> If you know C, that's like:
>
>     ?(condition-being-tested, value-if-true, value-if-false)

Or to be precise:

condition-being-tested ? value-if-true : value-if-false

ChrisA