How to condense if else into one line in Python

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Possible Duplicate    Python Ternary Operator   Putting a simple if-then statement on one line       Is there a way to compress an if else statement to one line in Python  I oftentimes see all sorts of shortcuts and suspect it can apply here too

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An example of Python s way of doing  ternary  expressions   i   5 if a  gt  7 else 0   translates into  if a  gt  7     i   5 else     i   0   This actually comes in handy when using list comprehensions  or sometimes in return statements  otherwise I m not sure it helps that much in creating readable code    The readability issue was discussed at length in this recent SO question better way than using if-else statement in python   It also contains various other clever  and somewhat obfuscated  ways to accomplish the same task  It s worth a read just based on those posts

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Python s if can be used as a ternary operator    gt  gt  gt   true  if True else  false   true   gt  gt  gt   true  if False else  false   false

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Only for using as a value   x   3 if a  2 else 0   or  return 3 if a  2 else 0

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There is the conditional expression   a if cond else b   but this is an expression  not a statement   In if statements  the if  or elif or else  can be written on the same line as the body of the block if the block is just one like   if something  somefunc   else  otherfunc     but this is discouraged as a matter of formatting-style

[python] How to condense if/else into one line in Python?

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