(a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

Tue Mar 30 13:12:04 EDT 2010

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:08 PM, John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
> Chris Rebert wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, gentlestone <tibor.beck at 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
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I wouldn't say that. It reads exactly how one would say it. I prefer this
over the ? semantics. Whenever I see that, my mind goes "Does a equal b? If
so, return this, otherwise return that". "Return this if a equals b,
otherwise return that" is much more direct and declaritive IMHO.
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