if the else short form

[Tom Potts]

This is just a sneaky shorthand, which is fine if that's what you want, but
it makes it harder to read.  The reason it works is that 'fill==True' is a
boolean expression, which evaluates to True or False, but if you force a
True into being an integer, it will be 1, and a False will become 0.  Try
writing 'True == 1' on the Python interpreter to see what I mean.  So this
code snippet is creating a tuple with two elements, and then selecting the
first if 'fill==True' is False, or 0, and selecting the second if
'fill==True' is True, or 1.

As I say, this kind of coding is absolutely fine, but it makes things harder
to read and doesn't really save much space.  I wouldn't recommend using this
kind of style yourself, at least until you're more familiar with programming
in Python.

Tom

On 29 September 2010 11:42, Tracubik <affdfsdfdsfsd at b.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm studying PyGTK tutorial and i've found this strange form:
>
> button = gtk.Button(("False,", "True,")[fill==True])
>
> the label of button is True if fill==True, is False otherwise.
>
> i have googled for this form but i haven't found nothing, so can any of
> you pass me any reference/link to this particular if/then/else form?
>
> thanks
> Nico
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