conditional print statement ?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Stef Mientki schrieb:
> hello,
> 
> 
> As part of a procedure I've a number sequences like this:
> 
> <Python>
>     if Print_Info: print Datafile.readline()
>     else:                Datafile.readline()
> </Python>
> 
> Is there a more compressed way to write such a statement,
> especially I dislike the redundancy "Datafile.readline()".

d=Datafile.readline()
if Print_info: print d

It's still two lines, but only has a single call to .readline().

HTH,
Martin