[Tutor] Change dictionary value depending on a conditional statement.

[Norman Khine]

Thank you all, very nice.

Steve Willoughby wrote:
> Kent Johnson wrote:
>> Try
>>    list.append({'id': 'name', 'link': ('YY','XX')[total > 0]})
> 
> I'd caution against that, though.  It's clever and cute, sure, but the 
> meaning of it is obfuscated enough to be unpythonic because [total > 0] 
> as a subscript doesn't mean anything unless you know you're taking 
> advantage of an implementation detail that booleans are 0 for false and 
> 1 for true.  No matter how reliable that fact may be, I don't think that 
> value should be stuck into a numeric context like that.
> 
>> Or, in Python 2.5,
>>    list.append({'id': 'name', 'link': ('XX' if total > 0 else 'YY')})
> 
> This is much more clear, and would IMHO be fine.
> 
> 
> 
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