A cute feature of this syntax: in "p if c else q" you can think of "if c else" as an infix operator like + and the rest. This operator has an algebra worked out

A cute feature of this syntax: in "p if c else q" you can think of "if c else" as an infix operator like + and the rest. This operator has an algebra worked out by John McCarthy -- e.g., it's associative. Of course I doubt this will help the poster to like Python more, but it might amuse others.