Question

I want to set a variable in Python to true or false. But the words true and false are interpreted as undefined variables:

#!/usr/bin/python
a = true; 
b = true;
if a == b:          
  print("same");

The error I get:

a = true
NameError: global name 'true' is not defined 

What is the python syntax to set a variable true or false?

Python 2.7.3

Answer 1

First to answer your question, you set a variable to true or false by assigning True or False to it:

myFirstVar = True
myOtherVar = False

If you have a condition that is basically like this though:

if <condition>:
    var = True
else:
    var = False

then it is much easier to simply assign the result of the condition directly:

var = <condition>

In your case:

match_var = a == b