I've done this in Scheme, but I'm not sure I can in Python.
I want the equivalent of this:
if a == "yes":
answer = "go ahead"
else:
answer = "stop"
in this more compact form:
a = (if a == "yes": "go ahead": "stop")
is there such a form in Python? I tried playing around with lambda
expressions, but I couldn't quite get it to work right. 11 5861 vo****@gmail.co m wrote: I want the equivalent of this:
if a == "yes": answer = "go ahead" else: answer = "stop"
in this more compact form:
a = (if a == "yes": "go ahead": "stop")
If the value for the 'true' case can never have a boolean value of
False, you can use this form:
a = (a == "yes") and "go ahead" or "stop"
The short-circuit evaluation of 'and' and 'or' give the correct result.
This will not work correctly because the 'and' will always evaluate to
"" which is False so the last term will be evaluated and returned:
a = (a == "yes") and "" or "stop"
and IMO the extra syntax needed to fix it isn't worth the trouble; just
spell out the if / else.
Kent vo****@gmail.co m wrote: I've done this in Scheme, but I'm not sure I can in Python.
I want the equivalent of this:
if a == "yes": answer = "go ahead" else: answer = "stop"
in this more compact form:
a = (if a == "yes": "go ahead": "stop")
is there such a form in Python? I tried playing around with lambda expressions, but I couldn't quite get it to work right.
There will be, in Python 2.5 (final release scheduled for August 2006): answer = "go ahead" if a=="yes" else "stop"
See: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...er/056846.html http://www.python.org/doc/peps/pep-0308/
--Ben
Kent - Thanks for the quick reply. I tried the and/or trick - it does
work. But you're right - more trouble than its worth.... So for now, I
did it "the long way". It looks like (see below), this functionality
will be added in soon.
Thanks for the quick help.
-sam vo****@gmail.co m writes: a = (if a == "yes": "go ahead": "stop")
is there such a form in Python? I tried playing around with lambda expressions, but I couldn't quite get it to work right.
This has been the subject of huge debate over the years. The answer
is Python doesn't currently have it, but it will be added to a coming
version: See http://www.python.org/doc/peps/pep-0308/
To do it in the most general way with lambda expressions, use (untested):
a = (lambda: iffalse_express ion,
lambda: iftrue_expressi on)[bool(condition)]()
That makes sure that only one of the target expressions gets evaluated
(they might have side effects).
There are various more common idioms like
a = (condition and iftrue_expressi on) or iffalse_express ion
which can go wrong and evaluate both expressions. It was a bug caused
by something like this that led to conditional expressions finally
being accepted into Python.
On 2006-03-19, vo****@gmail.co m <vo****@gmail.c om> wrote: I want the equivalent of this:
if a == "yes": answer = "go ahead" else: answer = "stop"
If that's what you want, then write that. ;)
-- gr****@visi.com
Grant Edwards vo****@gmail.co m wrote: I want the equivalent of this:
if a == "yes": answer = "go ahead" else: answer = "stop"
in this more compact form:
a = (if a == "yes": "go ahead": "stop")
is there such a form in Python? I tried playing around with lambda expressions, but I couldn't quite get it to work right.
Rather than lambda, this merits a named function. You only have to
define it once.
def mux(s, t, f):
if s:
return t
return f
def interpret(a):
answer = mux(a == "yes", "go ahead", "stop")
print answer
interpret("yes" ) # Prints "go ahead."
interpret("no") # Prints "stop." vo****@gmail.co m wrote: I've done this in Scheme, but I'm not sure I can in Python.
I want the equivalent of this:
if a == "yes": answer = "go ahead" else: answer = "stop"
in this more compact form:
a = (if a == "yes": "go ahead": "stop")
is there such a form in Python? I tried playing around with lambda expressions, but I couldn't quite get it to work right.
I sometimes find it useful to do:
answers = {True: "go ahead", False: "stop"}
answer = answers[a == "yes"]
This is also sometimes useful when you want to alternate between two values.
values = {'a':'b', 'b':'a'} # define outside loop
while 1:
v = values[v] # alternate between 'a' and 'b'
...
There are limits to this, both the keys and the values need to be hashable.
Cheers,
Ron
Jeffrey Schwab wrote: vo****@gmail.co m wrote:
I want the equivalent of this:
if a == "yes": answer = "go ahead" else: answer = "stop"
in this more compact form:
a = (if a == "yes": "go ahead": "stop")
is there such a form in Python? I tried playing around with lambda expressions, but I couldn't quite get it to work right.
Rather than lambda, this merits a named function. You only have to define it once.
def mux(s, t, f): if s: return t return f
But be aware that this is not a complete replacement for a syntactic
construct. With that function, Python will always evaluate all three
arguments, in contrast to the and/or-form or the Python 2.5 conditional.
You can show this with
test = mux(False, 1/0, 1)
and
test = False and 1/0 or 1
Georg vo****@gmail.co m wrote: I've done this in Scheme, but I'm not sure I can in Python.
I want the equivalent of this:
if a == "yes": answer = "go ahead" else: answer = "stop"
in this more compact form:
a = (if a == "yes": "go ahead": "stop")
is there such a form in Python? I tried playing around with lambda expressions, but I couldn't quite get it to work right.
How about :
a = ["stop","go ahead"][a == "yes"]
This works because: int("yes" == "yes")
1 int("yes" == "no")
0
Taking into account all the previous comments - both the literal list
elements are evaluated; there is no short-cirtuiting here. If they're
just literals, it's no problem, but if they're (possibly
compute-intensive) function calls, it would matter. I find the list
evaluation easier to parse than the and/or equation, and in instances
where that would be necessary, I will use the longhand if ... else ...
structure for readability.
hth,
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