[OT] Number theory [Was: A use for integer quotients]

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Sun, 29 Jul 2001 22:20:09 GMT, Bengt Richter <bokr at accessone.com> pisze:

> BTW, note the usefulness of boolean-as-integer returned from
> comparison operators, if you want to be picky about plurals:
> 
>     print "There %s %d error%s." % ( ['were','was'][n==1], n, 's'*(n!=1) ) 

I would write it
      print "There %s %d error%s." % (if n==1 then ('was',  n, '')
                                              else ('were', n, 's'))
if I could.

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