Since there was talk of if-then-else not being allowed in lambda expressions, the following is from "Dive into Python"
The and-or conditional expression trick from page 41 of "Dive into Python" Wrap the arguments in lists and then take the first element. >>> a = "" >>> b = "second" >>> (1 and [a] or [b])[0] '' -- Regards, Casey -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
