On Mar 30, 10:08 am, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote:
> Chris Rebert wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, gentlestone <tibor.b...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi, how can I write the popular C/JAVA syntax in Python?
>
> >> Java example:
> >> return (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'
>
> >> My first idea is:
> >> return ('No','Yes')[bool(a==b)]
>
> >> Is there a more elegant/common python expression for this?
>
> > Yes, Python has ternary operator-like syntax:
> > return ('Yes' if a==b else 'No')
>
> > Note that this requires a recent version of Python.
>
> Who let the dogs in? That's awful syntax.
>
> John Nagle
Baloney. The Python ternary syntax is perfectly fine. The "if" could
have been put in front, as in Scala:
return if a == b "yes" else "no"
but either way is fine and perfectly readable as far as I am concerned.
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