Is there a way to negate a boolean returned to variable?

Question

I have a Django site, with an Item object that has a boolean property active. I would like to do something like this to toggle the property from False to True and vice-versa:

def toggle_active(item_id):     item = Item.objects.get(id=item_id)     item.active = !item.active     item.save() 

This syntax is valid in many C-based languages, but seems invalid in Python. Is there another way to do this WITHOUT using:

if item.active:     item.active = False else:     item.active = True item.save() 

The native python neg() method seems to return the negation of an integer, not the negation of a boolean.

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

You can do this:

item.active = not item.active 

That should do the trick :)

Answer 2

I think you want

item.active = not item.active