Trinary operator?

[Jeff Shannon]

In article <mailman.1019250162.24332.python-list at python.org>, 
pyth at devel.trillke.net says...
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:47:09PM +0200, Philipp Lenssen wrote:
> 
> > (huge code fragments deleted :-)
> 
> really? wouldn't these few simple lines do what you/one want/s?
> 
> genderdict = { 'english': { 'm':'male', 'f':'female'},
>                'german' : { 'm':'männlich','f': 'weiblich'} }
> 
> return genderdict.get(language,{}).get(gender,'UNKNOWN')
> 

Or, alternately:

genderdict = { ('english', 'm') : 'male',
               ('english', 'f') : 'female',
               ('german', 'm')  : 'männlich',
               ('german', 'f')  : 'weiblich' }

return genderdict.get( (language, gender), 'UNKNOWN' )

using a dictionary keyed on tuples, instead of nested 
dictionaries.  I'm not sure which would be preferable -- I expect 
that it would depend on the typical usages.

-- 

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International