On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:17 AM, DaveM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:24:36 -0700 (PDT), alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >On Jul 27, 10:13 pm, ssecorp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have seen somewhere that you can write something like: > > >> x*x if x>10 > >> but exactly that doesn't work and I can't get any variation to work. > > >It's called a ternary operator. The format is: > ><label> = <true-value> if <condition> else <false-value> > > I've seen the PERL saying/motto/boast, "There's more than one way to do it" > derided on more than one occasion on this group so what's the reason for > this additional way to put an if else statement on one line? Are "and" and > "or" constructions to produce the same effect not supported for this use? >
In fact the PEP for this construct states: The motivating use case was the prevalance of error-prone attempts to achieve the same effect using "and" and "or". See: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0308/ Karen
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