This is the kind of thing I might turn into a simple function with short circuiting returns. I suppose the new syntax is just as readable, but I kind of like i

This is the kind of thing I might turn into a simple function with short circuiting returns. I suppose the new syntax is just as readable, but I kind of like it this way a bit better. def get_reductor_value(cls, x): reductor = dispatch_table.get(cls) if reductor: return reductor(x) reductor = getattr(x, "__reduce_ex__", None) if reductor: return reductor(4) reductor = getattr(x, "__reduce__", None) if reductor: return reductor() raise Error("un(shallow)copyable object of type %s" % cls)