On Aug 18, 5:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I'm using IronPython to evaluate expressions, so I can't use the > return statement but have to say it in an one-liner.
By "evaluate expressions", do you mean using the eval built-in function? If so, find the recent thread addressing this topic; it was asserted that 98% of eval() use-cases were better implemented another way. What's _your_ use-case? > Using C/C++ I > could use "cond ? then : else" to have an expression-if, but in Python > there's no such operator. The "cond and then or else"-trick only seems > to work for non-false "then"s and is not very readable. There is an even more unreadable hack (due to Tim Peters IIRC) that avoides the false-then problem: (cond and [then_value] or [else_value])[0] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
