On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 17:53:46 -0500, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wednesday 07 September 2005 02:44 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: >> Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > def ternary(condition, true_result, false_result): >> > if condition: >> > return true_result >> > else: >> > return false_result >> > >> > Almost as good, and you don't have to talk curmudgeons into providing >> > it for you. >> >> Not the same at all. It evaluates both the true and false results, >> which may have side effects. > >If you are depending on that kind of nit-picking behavior, >you have a serious design flaw, a bug waiting to bite you, >and code which shouldn't have been embedded in an expression >in the first place. > Or you might know excatly what you are doing ;-) Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
