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Don't think so, Python doesn't really care if you dispose of the results of an expression. Think about the problems you'd have with ternaries.

• owl57 6y ago
  What's the problem with ternaries?
  • mark-r 6y ago
    One of the two possible sub-expressions isn't used.
    • mkl 6y ago
      It's also not evaluated. There is no discarding, so there would be no problem.
• dragonwriter 6y ago
  Ternaries don't discard results that are generated, they are just special short-circuiting operators; x if y else z Is effectively syntax sugar for: y and x or z Nothing is discarded after evaluation, one of three arms is never evaluated, just as one of two arms of a common short-circuiting Boolean operator often (but not always) is not. That's essentially the opposite of executing and producing possible side effects and then discarding the results.