[Tutor] multiple function returns

[Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Jim Mooney <cybervigilante at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> def foo(x):
>> ...     if x:
>> ...         return True
>> ...     return False
>>
>> I'll leave it to you to work out why that works.  It's very handy!
>>
> Hey, it saves typing an "else" and as you know, I'm the Lazy Typist.
> My program to make dicts, lists, etc from a single string, using no
> special characters, has saved me so much little-finger typing already
> I'd never part with it, flawed as it is. It's good-enough ;')

The Lazy Typist would actually do:

def foo(x):
    return bool(x)

Or even:

foo = lambda x: bool(x)

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