Syntax to skip elements when constructing a list/tuple/set/dict

[15r10nk (Frank Hoffmann)]

@mrozekma, I had a similar idea some time ago.
You might be interested in the following thread.

Conditional elements/arguments

Hi, I would like to know what you think about an idea I got recently. Problem It is sometime required to pass an argument to an function if a condition is true if sys.version_info >= (3.8): ast.dump(tree, indent=4) else: ast.dump(tree) This can get difficult to maintain if the arguments getting more. It is possible to write this in one line. cnd=sys.version_info >= (3.8) ast.dump(tree, **({"indent":4} if cnd else {}) ) this can be used for multiple arguments if necessary and scale…