As part of my series on Python's syntax [https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/]
, I want to tackle the from clause for raise statements
[https://docs.python.org/3.8/reference/simple_stmts.html#
In the last post [https://snarky.ca/unravelling-elif-else-from-if-statements/]
of my syntactic sugar series [https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/], I showed
how you can get away with not having elif and else clauses on
While I won't be attempting to unravel if statements entirely as part of my
blog
series on Python's syntactic sugar [https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/], I
will be attempting to partially unravel them
I have previously unravelled for loops
[https://snarky.ca/unravelling-for-statements/], and so the concept of looping
has already come up in this blog post series of removing the syntactic sugar
from Python. But
I occasionally hear people lament that Python is "bloated", "too big", "going
enterprise", or some other phrasing to suggest there was once an "ideal" version
of Python that had less bloat and was