Conditional operator in Python?

[Ben Wolfson]

In article <3AC6B9C5.68EFC041 at alcyone.com>,
Erik Max Francis  <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
>Emile van Sebille wrote:
>
>> Yes, it comes up.  Generally, except for short-circuiting, the
>> solutions
>> follow:
>> 
>> >>> 1 and 2 or 3
>> 2
>> >>> 0 and 2 or 3
>> 3
>
>Yeah, but the short-circuiting exceptions are what make that construct
>not worth using, since if used identically as a replacement for a
>conditional expression, it won't work when a is 0 (or any other
>expression that evaluates to false).

Easily, if unreadably, solved: (condition and (a,) or (b,))[0]



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