Feature suggestion -- return if true

Mon Apr 11 21:44:16 EDT 2011

On 2011年04月12日, James Mills <prologic at shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:17 AM, zildjohn01 <zildjohn01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is an idea I've had bouncing around in my head for a long time
>> now. I propose the following syntax:
>> Maybe this is more appropriare for the python-ideas list ?
>>> ?? ??return? expr
>> This syntax does not fit well within python ideology.
>>> be expanded to
>>>> ?? ??_temp = expr
>> ?? ??if _temp: return _temp
>> This could be simplified to just:
>> return expr or None

How is that the same?
 return? something() return something() or None
 return? somethingelse() return somethingelse() or None
 log("didn't find an answer") log("didn't find an answer") 
 raise ValueError raise ValueError
Are you saying the two snippets above are equivalent?
-- 
Grant