One liners

[Rotwang]

On 07/12/2013 16:25, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 16:13:09 +0000, Rotwang wrote:
>
>> On 07/12/2013 12:41, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>     if tracks is None:
>>>        tracks = []
>>
>> Sorry to go off on a tangent, but in my code I often have stuff like
>> this at the start of functions:
>>
>>       tracks = something if tracks is None else tracks
>>
>> or, in the case where I don't intend for the function to be passed
>> non-default Falsey values:
>>
>>       tracks = tracks or something
>>
>> Is there any reason why the two-line version that avoids the ternary
>> operator should be preferred to the above?
>
> Only if you need to support Python 2.4, which doesn't have the ternary if
> operator :-)

Thanks, and likewise to everyone else who replied.