if does not evaluate

[Tor Iver Wilhelmsen]

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.