On Feb 7, 4:36 pm, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 7, 4:25 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > cybersource.com.au> wrote: > > On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:59:13 +0100, Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > > > Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > > >> Personally, between > > > >> * foo if foo else bar > > >> * foo or bar > > > >> I prefer the second. Maybe it could be spelt > > > >> * foo else bar ? > > > > How about > > > > val = foo rather than bar > > > > If that is not clear and obvios, I don't know what is. ;) > > > In English, the expression "foo rather than bar" means "bar is never > > chosen, foo is always chosen". > > Ok, the fix is easy: > > val = BETTER foo THAN bar > > ;-) > > Cobol-strikes-back-ly yours, > > George
I use a ETL language/tool that actually has a function for this kind of thing: NulltoValue(value,defaultValue) it returns defaultValue if value is null otherwise value. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
