Python Conditional Variable Setting

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SolarLune picture SolarLune · Nov 14, 2011 · Viewed 76.2k times · Source

For some reason I can't remember how to do this - I believe there was a way to set a variable in Python, if a condition was true? What I mean is this:

 value = 'Test' if 1 == 1

Where it would hopefully set value to 'Test' if the condition (1 == 1) is true. And with that, I was going to test for multiple conditions to set different variables, like this:

 value = ('test' if 1 == 1, 'testtwo' if 2 == 2)

And so on for just a few conditions. Is this possible?

Answer

Donald Miner picture Donald Miner · Nov 14, 2011

This is the closest thing to what you are looking for:

value = 'Test' if 1 == 1 else 'NoTest'

Otherwise, there isn't much else.

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