People hate on Python a lot. I just used the Python ternary operator for the first time. I found it easier to read than the C++ ternary operator:

0 if i==0 else 2 if i==segmentMax-1 else 1
vs
i==0 ? 0 : i==segmentMax-1 ? 2 : 1

I think Python did a good job in this case.

Please, don't. One ternary is fine, but combining them is horrible.

@iiii Too late. It is for a list comphrehension. It actually reads well.

Weirdly enough, as someone who actually really likes Python I hate its ternary, it's just an irritatingly inconsistent bit of syntax to conform to English.

No

Always, always, always use parentheses around your ternaries.

If you don’t, I will find you and I will stab you with your own keyboard.

@Root Well it feeds into an array of strings. So its surrounded by [ ]

@Demolishun (a == b ? 1 : (c == d ? 2 : (e … ))

@Root I dont generally use nested ternary in C++. I only used it in Python because I was doing it inside a comprehension which has limited capability for code blocks.

Elvis operator FTW! That's also why you don't chain it. Rock'n'roll is not meant to be chained.

@Demolishun it does not. Both of those.

Both are horrible to read.

Nested ternaries and no brackets, do you want to be shot in the back, hung by the neck while I run barb wire over your back?

I don't care who you are, I'd print it out and slap you with it till you fixed it.

A single if/else ternary I can live with, but the moment it's anything more complex than that, it's not for a ternary to decide anymore.

Nested ternaries with no parentheses will fuck you up in c# thanks to ternary having same precedent as some other operators

Found this gem at work the other day

@wackOverflow that hurts me

@Root Parenthesis make the Python version more readable. Thanks.

Python does things for the sake of being "oh Im a different language compared to others, we do things the Python way and it's cool". When in fact it's not.

Python has done many things right, unlike some languages *eyes js and php*