id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	launchpad_bug
2377	replace 'cond and one or tother' idiom with 'one if cond or tother'	daira	daira	"In Python pre-2.5, the nearest equivalent to C's `cond ? one : tother` was the idiom `cond and one or tother`.
In Python 2.5+, a more precise equivalent is `one if cond else tother`.

The former is error-prone: it evaluates to `tother` when `one` is falsy, which is the wrong thing. Since Tahoe-LAFS requires at least Python 2.6, we can always use the latter.

(""t'other"" is Northern English dialect for ""the other"", if you were wondering about that.)"	defect	new	normal	undecided	code	1.10.0		cleanup