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Proposed new conditional operator: "or else"

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  Proposed new conditional operator: "or else" Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-12-02 12:18 -0500

#81804 — Proposed new conditional operator: "or else"

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In the process of refactoring some code, I serendipitously created what I think is an essential new bit of Python syntax.  The “or else” statement.  I ended up with:

        sites_string = args.sites or else self.config['sites']

which, of course, is a syntax error today, but it got me thinking what we could do with an “or else” construct.  Perhaps an alternative to assertions?  Wouldn’t it be neat to write:

   foo == 42 or else

and have that be an synonym for:

    assert foo == 42

:-)

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