if the else short form

[Emile van Sebille]

On 9/30/2010 3:21 AM Sion Arrowsmith said...
> Andreas Waldenburger<usenot at geekmail.INVALID>  wrote:
>> <http://docs.python.org/release/3.1/reference/datamodel.html#the-standard-type-hierarchy>
>>     [ ... ]
>>     Boolean values behave like the values 0 and 1, respectively, in
>>     almost all contexts, the exception being that when converted to a
>>     string, the strings "False" or "True" are returned, respectively.
>
> Hmm. So the original problem of:
>
> button = gtk.Button(("False,", "True,")[fill==True])
>
> could also rewritten as:
>
> button = gtk.Button(str(bool(fill))+",")
>

I think I'd prefer

button = gtk.Button("%s," % bool(fill))

Emile