I recently switched to using python 2.5 from 2.4, one of the new language level features in 2.5 is conditional expressions. Which I thought was odd because ...

Conditional Expressions Python also allows us to use conditional expressions (or ternary operators) to evaluate the truthiness of complex statements in a single line.

Conditional Expressions Python also allows us to use conditional expressions (or ternary operators) to evaluate the truthiness of complex statements in a single line.