python syntax for conditional is unfortunate
Asun Friere
afriere at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Sep 24 21:32:52 EDT 2008
On Sep 25, 3:16 am, Pete Forman <pete.for... at westerngeco.com> wrote:
> Asun Friere <afri... at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>
> > A canonical use of the conditional operator is in
> > pluralising words, (eg. '%s dollar' % n + 's' if n!=1 else '').
>
> That fails for n == 1. So what is best?
>
Sorry missing parentheses. I should test before posting, even for
code written into.
> for i in range(4):
> print '%d thing' % i + ('s' if i != 1 else '')
That is the correct version of what I meant, but your last, including
all variables for placeholders in the tuple is probably better.
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