Can I use a conditional in a variable declaration?

[volcs0]

I've done this in Scheme, but I'm not sure I can in Python.

I want the equivalent of this:

if a == "yes":
   answer = "go ahead"
else:
   answer = "stop"

in this more compact form:


a = (if a == "yes": "go ahead": "stop")


is there such a form in Python? I tried playing around with lambda
expressions, but I couldn't quite get it to work right.

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Re: Can I use a conditional in a variable declaration?

[volcs0]

Kent - Thanks for the quick reply. I tried the and/or trick - it does
work. But you're right - more trouble than its worth So for now, I
did it "the long way". It looks like (see below), this functionality
will be added in soon.

Thanks for the quick help.

-sam

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