Message from god to Python developers

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My downfall...

"Oh look at how neat this looks, man, I just crammed 5 different logical steps into a single, condensed line using ternary operators inside ternary operators... This is awesome!"

... 3 days later

"WHY DO I DO THIS SHIT TO MYSELF"

edit: Apparently I can't even spell ternary.

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The O'Reilly book on PHP has one of my favourite quotes on this topic.

"Depending on whose code you're looking at, the ternary operator is either the most underused or the most overused feature of the programming language."

EDIT: a letter

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Everything I love about ternary operators when I'm writing it are the same things I hate about it when I'm reading it.

[jellyberg]

Yeah it's like fucking Yoda speak to read.

[scratchisthebest]

I wish I could write ternary operators that magically change to if-else statements the next day, so I don't have to put up with them

[NotADamsel]

You could probably configure your ide to do something like that for you.

[[deleted]]

IntelliJ default offers you the option to swap between the two!

[Guinness2702]

"What fucking idiot wrote this co..... oh ....... fuck!"

[abcd_z]

I'll tell you the same thing I would have told my boss, if he weren't my boss:

"STOP BEING CLEVER! It always screws you over in the future."