A = X > Y ? X : Y

[john]

a=(x,y)[y>x]

Moshe Zadka wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 17:04:01 -0800, Curtis Jensen <cjensen at be-research.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> >
> > >I fear that this question has already been asked,
> >
> > Yes, it has.
> >
> > >but is there and
> > >equivalant one line command that is equivalant to the C command:
> > >
> > >a = x > y ? x : y
> >
> > Possibly.
> >
> > Generally this question is answered with at least a half-dozen
> > or so one-line code examples -- almost all of which somebody
> > will claim are wrong in one respect or another.  While there
> > may exist an equivalent chunk of Python code, the practical
> > answer seems to be that there isn't a _good_ (readable and
> > obviously correct) way to do this with one line of Python code.
> >
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