ternary operator

[Christopher A. Craig]

Paul Foley <see at below.invalid> writes:

> On 05 Feb 2003 09:49:33 -0500, Christopher A Craig wrote:
> 
> > gausebec-spam at paypal.com (David Gausebeck) writes:
> >> 2) Is there any better workaround than the ones I've listed above?
> 
> > if a: x = b
> > else: x = c
> 
> Urk.  There really ought to be a PSU death squad dedicated to hunting
> down people who write code like that!

You like (b, c)[not a] better?  I generally don't write code like
that, but it is more compact than the prefered way and anything is
better than the perl-line-noise-eqsue ternery work alikes that are
available.

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Christopher A. Craig <list-python at ccraig.org>
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