1-line idiom to replace if blocks

[Terry Reedy]

"Jonathan P." <jbperez808 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I hate code that takes up too many lines and
> have come up with the ff. idiom to replace
> many 4 line if statements:
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> result=[value-if-false,value-if-true][condition]
>
> This idea could also be applied as a compact
> switch block replacement in certain cases.

If you google the newsgroup for 'conditional expression' you can find
dozens of posts on this topic, including several by me.
Terry J. Reedy

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