(a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

[Chris Colbert]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:08 PM, John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:

> Chris Rebert wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, gentlestone <tibor.beck at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, how can I write the popular C/JAVA syntax in Python?
>>>
>>> Java example:
>>>   return (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'
>>>
>>> My first idea is:
>>>   return ('No','Yes')[bool(a==b)]
>>>
>>> Is there a more elegant/common python expression for this?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, Python has ternary operator-like syntax:
>> return ('Yes' if a==b else 'No')
>>
>> Note that this requires a recent version of Python.
>>
>
>    Who let the dogs in?  That's awful syntax.
>
>                                        John Nagle
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I wouldn't say that. It reads exactly how one would say it. I prefer this
over the ? semantics. Whenever I see that, my mind goes "Does a equal b? If
so, return this, otherwise return that". "Return this if a equals b,
otherwise return that" is much more direct and declaritive IMHO.
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