Jeffrey Schwab wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I want the equivalent of this: >> >> if a == "yes": >> answer = "go ahead" >> else: >> answer = "stop" >> >> in this more compact form: >> >> a = (if a == "yes": "go ahead": "stop") >> >> is there such a form in Python? I tried playing around with lambda >> expressions, but I couldn't quite get it to work right. > > Rather than lambda, this merits a named function. You only have to > define it once. > > def mux(s, t, f): > if s: > return t > return f
But be aware that this is not a complete replacement for a syntactic construct. With that function, Python will always evaluate all three arguments, in contrast to the and/or-form or the Python 2.5 conditional. You can show this with test = mux(False, 1/0, 1) and test = False and 1/0 or 1 Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
