My comment, and the comments above it are all about C-style languages (C, C++, C#, Java). Languages with very different syntax like Python are of course going

My comment, and the comments above it are all about C-style languages (C, C++, C#, Java). Languages with very different syntax like Python are of course going to have different style preferences. Eg. Python doesn't have a ?: operator at all, just an inline if-else expression, so the entire discussion of "should you use ?: for control flow" is meaningless for Python.