On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Alice Bevan-McGregor
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Howdy!
>
>>> This works even without adding web.cond to template globals:
>>>  <div class="$(sunny and 'yellow' or 'grey')">...</div>
>>
>> Oh. Now, that's a cool hack. Big thumbs up! I guess I have to brush my 
>> Python up. :P
>
> Only concern with that syntax is that both the true and false expressions are 
> evaluated regardless of the state of the conditional, vs. the Python 2.5+ 
> syntax of:
>
>        $('yellow' if sunny else 'grey')
>
> Which only evaluates one or the other.  This is important if your conditional 
> tests for the presence of a property and either uses it, or doesn’t, to avoid 
> attribute errors.  (One example of several where the A and B or C syntax 
> fails.)

Thanks for the warning. I wasn't aware of the shortahnd if-else.

Regards,


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