if does not evaluate

[Jim Newton]

this suggestion does not work because
expr2 evaluates even if expr1 is TRUE.


Tor Iver Wilhelmsen wrote:
> Jim Newton <jimka at rdrop.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>I.e.,  x = if something:
>>               expr1
>>            else:
>>               expr2
> 
> 
> Try exploiting that a boolean expression evaluates to 0 or 1:
> 
> x = (expr1, expr2)[something];
> 
> Keep in mind that this might break on some later release of Python if
> they decide to make boolean its own type, but at least it works for
> 2.3.3.