Returning a string from a boolean

[Duncan Booth]

Dan Rawson <daniel.rawson.take!this!out!@asml.nl> wrote in
news:bhalml$1012pe$1 at ID-122008.news.uni-berlin.de: 

> 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. 
> 
Python 2.2 and earlier, the shortest way is:

   return bVar and 'True' or 'False'
or
   return ('True','False')[not bVar]

Both of the above will test the truth value of bVar, so for example an 
empty string or empty list will return False. Personally, I would go for 
your original function as combining clarity with reasonable but not 
excessive brevity.

In Python 2.3, str(bVar) will give you 'True' or 'False' as appropriate, 
but only if bVar is a bool.

-- 
Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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