Shorter, more pythonic way of writing an if statement

Question

I have this

bc = 'off'  if c.page == 'blog':     bc = 'on'  print(bc) 

Is there a more pythonic (and/or shorter) way of writing this in Python?

Answer 1

Shortest one should be:

bc = 'on' if c.page=='blog' else 'off' 

Generally this might look a bit confusing, so you should only use it when it is clear what it means. Don't use it for big boolean clauses, since it begins to look ugly fast.