Trinary operator?

[Grant Edwards]

In article <a9kebg$ub9$1 at slb5.atl.mindspring.net>, Andrew Dalke wrote:
> Philipp Lenssen:
>>can I use something like
>>    verboseGender = (gender == 'm') ? 'male' : 'female'
>>in Python?
> 
> No.  Search the archives for "ternary operator" for plenty of
> past discussion.  Google lists 65 posts for comp.lang.python.
> 
> Besides, for this specific case you should have some error checking,
> because there are genders other than 'male' and 'female' (eg,
> asexual bacteria and hermaphradite earthworms).

And in German, there's "neutral".

Unless we _are_ talking about bioligical stuff, then the term
you want is probably "sex" rather than "gender" (which I read
somewhere has always been a grammatical term not a biological
one until recently?), and you've may have to differentiate
between phenotype and genotype depending on the eventual use of
the data....

[somebody else has already posted a useful answer]

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