A = X > Y ? X : Y

[Justin Sheehy]

"Stidolph, David" <stidolph at origin.ea.com> writes:

> Why not just use the max method?
> 
> a = max(x,y)

Well, the original poster's question was for something equivalent to
their use of C's ?: ternary operator.  max() is not equivalent to that.

I have never personally seen a situation where I thought that an
expression like (x > y and [x] or [y])[0] was really needed or even a
good idea in a Python program.

-Justin