Re: [myhdl-list] convertion of Conditional Expressions in python2.5 and up

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

Jian LUO wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> I've made a patch for conversion of  Conditional Expressions, e.g:
>     x = true_value if condition else false_value
> which is new in python 2.5 (not quite new as 3.0 is out :) )
> 
> This kind of expressions are widely used in both verilog and vhdl.
> I think it's worth to convert it as well, so I made the patch.(see
> attachment)
> 
> And don't worry about the python2.4. Conditional expression will not
> pass the syntax check in python 2.4 before it fails. So there is no lose
> at all.

Thanks, good to see that someone can make sense of the conversion
source code :-)

I'm going to push this to MyHDL 0.7. There are a few other syntactic sugar
features that will be added in that version, and Python 2.5 can be
made a requirement. Also, a unit test has to be added.

In the future, may I suggest to use mercurial to make patches? The
whole process is described here:

     http://www.myhdl.org/doku.php/dev:patches

Jan

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