else on the same line

Gerrit Holl gerrit at nl.linux.org
Wed Oct 15 07:17:56 EDT 2003

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Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Sorry for this trivial question
> 
> Since Python lacks conditional expression
> 
> like
> 
> k+= (dy >= 0 ? 1 : -1)

See PEP 308 and google for PEP 308 (on Google groups) for background
information.

> I would like to write
> if  dy >= 0 : k+= 1; else: k-= 1

You can't.

> instead of
> if  dy >= 0 :  k+= 1
> else        :  k-= 1

Why do you want to obscure you're own code?

Gerrit Holl.

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