On Aug 11, 2007, at 9:28 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> I want to print "penny" or "pennies" based on the number of
> pennies. How do
> I do that in Python without hard coding the two words? I suppose I
> could
> have a list of singular money and a list of plural money and print
> the one
> that is appropriate; but a good ole FoxPro IIF() would be better.
If you have Python 2.5 or later you can write it:
print "penny" if pennies == 1 else "pennies"
Otherwise, you have to use an if structure:
if pennies == 1:
print "penny"
else:
print "pennies"
-- Ed Leafe
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