Short if

[Sylvain Thenault]

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:40:04 +0000, Paul Sweeney wrote:

>> Does Python have a short if like C or PHP:
>>
>>   bool = false
>>   string = 'This is ' + (( bool ) ? 'true' : 'false')
>>
>>
> 
> If you are really convinced that this is a good road to go down (think of
> code readability), you could do
> 
>     bool = False   # check capitalisation! string = 'This is ' +
>     ('false','true')[bool]

you can use logical "and" and "or" to achieve this:

string = 'This is ' + (bool and 'true' or 'false')

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