Is there something similar to ?: operator (C/C++) in Python?

Andrew Durdin adurdin at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 02:27:42 EDT 2005


On 6/29/05, Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at acm.org> wrote:
>      result = [(lambda: expr0), lambda: expr1][cond]()

Which still has an error, as evidenced by the following:

>>> cond = ""
>>> result = [(lambda: expr0), lambda: expr1][cond]()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: list indices must be integers

Corrected version:

    result = [(lambda: expr0), lambda: expr1][bool(cond)]()

Or if using python < 2.3:

    result = [(lambda: expr0), lambda:
expr1][__import__("operator").truth(cond)]()

Andrew



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