Re: Proposed new conditional operator: "or else"

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From	Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com>
Date	2014-12-02 11:41 -0600
Subject	Re: Proposed new conditional operator: "or else"
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On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> Wouldn’t it be neat to write:
>
>    foo == 42 or else
>
> and have that be an synonym for:
>
>     assert foo == 42
>
> :-)

Never going to happen, but I like it!  Perhaps raise IntimidationError
instead of AssertionError when it fails?

-- 
Zach

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Re: Proposed new conditional operator: "or else" Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2014-12-02 11:41 -0600
  Re: Proposed new conditional operator: "or else" Andrea D'Amore <anddamNOPSAM+gruppi@brapi.net> - 2014-12-02 22:41 +0100

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