Andy Leszczynski wrote: > Lawrence Oluyede wrote: >>There are tons of threads on this newsgroup and in the python-dev mailing >>list about a ternary operator. There's also a PEP AFAIK. >> >>I like this: >> >>In [1]:switch = True >> >>In [2]:a = (1, 2)[switch] >> >>In [3]:print a >>2 > > Like it too, thx. Switch does not have to be bool, so it is more > powerfull than ?:.
Actually, if "switch" is neither bool nor a number that equals 0 or 1, you'll have trouble... using bool(switch) instead would do what you thought that did, I guess. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list