On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:06 am, Alister wrote: > Conditional operators (or and not == etc.) need to be used in a test Technically, that is incorrect. > how else would you expect you print statement to be able to decided > which to print? default = "I like Brussels sprouts." message = random.choice(["", "I like boiled cabbage."]) print( message or default ) -- Steven