Question

I’m just wondering, is there a Python idiom to check if a string is empty, and then print a default if it’s is?

(The context is Django, for the __unicode__(self) function for UserProfile – basically, I want to print the first name and last name, if it exists, and then the username if they don’t both exist).

Cheers,
Victor

Answer 1

displayname = firstname + lastname or username

will work if firstname and last name has 0 length blank string