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Ternary conditional operator in Python

I’ve programmed in Java for quite sometime, I’m learning Python in school and I remember in Java for a boolean expression you could do

boolean ? (if boolean is true this happens) : (if boolean is false this happens)

Is their a way to do the above Java code in Python? And what is the statement above properly called?

Answer 1

Yes, you can use this (more pythonic):

>>> "foo"'if condition else "bar"

Or, this (more common, but not recommended):

>>> condition and "foo" or "bar"