Trinary operator?

[John Roth]

"Just van Rossum" <just at xs4all.nl> wrote in message
news:just-4227D7.21004717042002 at news1.xs4all.nl...
> In article <mailman.1019066614.29792.python-list at python.org>,
>  "Mark McEahern" <marklists at mceahern.com> wrote:
>
> > > Not that it's a big deal since there's many ways to do that, but
can I use
> > > something like
> > >     verboseGender = (gender == 'm') ? 'male' : 'female'
> > > in Python?
> >
> > People seem to use and/or for that:
>
> But they shouldn't.

Why not? There's no other reason for the behavior
of 'and' and 'or' returning the object that caused the
final result.

John Roth