Returning a string from a boolean

[Dan Rawson]

I need to return "True" or "False" strings for a boolean value (mostly for display purposes).

It's obviously trivial to write the function:

def bStr (bVar):
     if bVar:
         return 'True'
     else:
         return 'False'

In Perl I can do this with the ternary 'if'

(bVar) ? 'True' : 'False'


Is there a simpler way in Python??

If it makes a difference, I'm using 2.2.2 (on Solaris) with no chance of going to 2.3 in the near future <g>; I know 
that some of this has changed in 2.3.

TIA . . .

Dan