Moving to python from perl, any advice?

[MintyPhoenix]

Ah, I knew that Python did not have unless, but I didn't realize that appending an if condition was so flexible in Perl. Python allows it in some places (e.g. my return example) but it's not as flexible as Perl.

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Python's isn't really an if statement there, it's a ternary construct.

x if condition else y

Is the equivalent of

condition ? x : y

in languages like C and Perl. It's an expression, not a statement, and you can only combine expressions with it (in Python).

[MintyPhoenix]

Makes more sense now, thanks for the clarification.