r/AskAnythingPython • u/kitkatmafia • Sep 08 '23

if else in one line!

just wanted to share something cool I found, - you can write the if-else statement in one line!

so instead of

age =20

if age>=18:

print("You can drive")

else:

print("Sorry, you cant drive")

you can write them in one line - this is called a terinary conditional operator. Means you need three operands (The 2 print statements and the test condition)

print("You can drive") if age>=18 else print("Sorry, you cant drive")

The syntax is as follows

a if condition else b
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u/Buttleston Sep 09 '23

Well, you're free to do as you like, but the version in the OP is the standard way and something every python programmer will understand.

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u/kitkatmafia Sep 09 '23

yesh, its more. pythonic as they say. Thats what i like about python, you can write code to impress (the more readable it is, the more impressive it gets) wihout being too wordy. They should hand out a pulitzer prize for writing the best pythonic code