> Does is look shorter? - YES!. Is it more readable? Arguably yes. Would I vote to see this feature in Python? HELL NO! No one has quite summed up my thoughts

> Does is look shorter? - YES!. Is it more readable? Arguably yes. Would I vote to see this feature in Python? HELL NO! No one has quite summed up my thoughts better than you. Hell, I would love it and love to use it but I thing it's relatively out of place in Python. Python just has many more ways to solve what should be a rare discouraged situation. I think it has a better place in languages like C#/Java that tend to have deeper, more rigid object hierarchies and more reasons for using nulls.