> You can say "x = 1 if expr else 2", but you cannot say "x = 1 if expr". You do a two line This one liner works: if expr: x = 1 > Or how about mutable d

> You can say "x = 1 if expr else 2", but you cannot say "x = 1 if expr". You do a two line This one liner works: if expr: x = 1 > Or how about mutable default values in function paramters? That makes a lot of sense... This can be helpful under certain circumstances (e.g. memoization) [1]. The linked article also points out that it can be useful for rebinding global names in optimized code. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/1145781 https://stackoverflow.com/a/1145781 [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200221224620id_/http://effbot.org/zone/default-values.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20200221224620id_/http://effbot....