Trinary operator?

[Jeff Shannon]

In article <871yd4odap.fsf at pvv.org>, oyving+news at pvv.org says...
> * Cliff Wells
> |
> | On 24 Apr 2002 22:57:20 +0200
> | Oyvind Gronnesby wrote:
> | 
> | > * Cimarron Taylor
> | > |
> | > | Will this do what you want?
> | > | 
> | > | verboseGender = ('female','male')[gender=='m']
> | > 
> | > Wouldn't this break in a PEP 285 Python world?
> | 
> | No.  That was the whole point of subclassing bool from int.
> 
> But wouldn't that just imply that True/False would turn into 1/0 if coerced
> into it by int()?

Yes, they will.  This is by design, to maintain backwards 
compatibility.  The only effective difference between 1 and True, 
and 0 and False, is how it's written, but they add, subtract, 
multiply, and hash the same.

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Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International