Question from a python newbie

[Remco Gerlich]

On Dec 13, 2007 4:39 PM, Russell <rcooknet at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been learning Python slowly for a few months, coming from a C/C+
> +, C#, Java, PHP background.  I ran across a code fragment I'm having
> trouble wrapping my brain around.  I've searched the Language
> Reference and was not able to find any info regarding the structure of
> this code fragment:
>
> int(text) if text.isdigit() else text


Hi,

It's a pretty new construct; basically it's Python's version of the ? :
"ternary operator" in other languages.

The line above is equivalent to

text.isdigit() ? int(text) : text

in, for instance, C.

Remco Gerlich
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