On Thursday 18 October 2001 12:56 pm, Mitchell Model allegedly wrote:

...

Is there a straightforward way to bind one of two values to a let variable depending on the value of another variable? In C/C++/Java I would use the ?: operator, but Python doesn't have that. Or should I just bind the variable to None then set it later with something like

<dtml-let var=None>

<dtml-if "testvar==targetval">

<dtml-var expr="_.set(var, 'yes')>

<dtml-else>

<dtml-var expr="_.set(var, 'no')>

</dtml-if>

</dtml-let>

Perhaps:

<dtml-let var="['no','yes'][testvar==targetval]"> ... </dtml-let>

Ah, yes -- that's the Python idiom I was looking for. It's so weird, I can never remember it! Thanks. -- --- Mitchell