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do you know if Python supports some keyword or expression like in C++ to return values based on if condition, all in the same line (The C++ if expressed with the question mark ?)
// C++ value = ( a > 10 ? b : c ) 
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Ternary operators are also known as conditional expressions are operators that evaluate something based on a condition being true or false. It was added to Python in version 2.5. It simply allows testing a condition in a single line replacing the multiline if-else making the code compact.
Python supports one additional decision-making entity called a conditional expression. (It is also referred to as a conditional operator or ternary operator in various places in the Python documentation.) Conditional expressions were proposed for addition to the language in PEP 308 and green-lighted by Guido in 2005.
In Python, conditional expression is written as follows. The condition is evaluated first. If condition is True , X is evaluated and its value is returned, and if condition is False , Y is evaluated and its value is returned. If you want to switch the value by the condition, simply describe each value as it is.
The == operator compares the value or equality of two objects, whereas the Python is operator checks whether two variables point to the same object in memory.
From Python 2.5 onwards you can do:
value = b if a > 10 else c Previously you would have to do something like the following, although the semantics isn't identical as the short circuiting effect is lost:
value = [c, b][a > 10] There's also another hack using 'and ... or' but it's best to not use it as it has an undesirable behaviour in some situations that can lead to a hard to find bug. I won't even write the hack here as I think it's best not to use it, but you can read about it on Wikipedia if you want.
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