Tino Wildenhain wrote: > > or in python <3.0: > > (num,"s"*(num >1)) works fine in 3.0 too >>> num=1 >>> (num,"s"*(num >1)) (1, '') >>> num=2 >>> (num,"s"*(num >1)) (2, 's') Of course, 0 events gets 's' also, so (num!=1) is the actual comparison needed.