Sure it's a design choice but, quoting the Zen of Python: > Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. > There should be one-- and preferably onl

Sure it's a design choice but, quoting the Zen of Python: > Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. > There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Both are broken by the existance of 2 if syntaxes depending on the context.