Question

Something my string var is equal to None.
I don’t want to have if statements to verify the value. Is there any simple way (like str(my_var)) which will return string value if this is not None and '' if None?

Answer 1

You can use foo or '', but in case foo is any other falsy value (0, an empty list, etc.) it will result in an empty string, too.

Another way would be '' if foo is None else foo