On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: >> Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Feb 17 2009, 20:16:45) >> [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >> >>> A,B=2,3 >> >>> if A>B: >> ... print A+B >> ... else: >> ... print A**B-B**2 >> ... >> -1 >> >>> A,B=3,2 >> >>> if A>B: >> ... print A+B >> ... else: >> ... print A**B-B**2 >> ... >> 5 >> >> tell me please: how can generate the same output (depending on A and B) >> without control structure? i mean in a natural "pythonic" way...
>>> def quadratic(a, b): ... return a + b if a > b else a**b - b**2 ... >>> a, b = 2, 3 >>> print quadratic(a, b) -1 >>> a, b = 3, 2 >>> print quadratic(a, b) 5 >>> --james -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
