How can I closely achieve ?: from C++/C# in Python?

Question

In C# I could easily write the following:

string stringValue = string.IsNullOrEmpty( otherString ) ? defaultString : otherString;

Is there a qu

Answer 1

If you used ruby, you could write

stringValue = otherString.blank? ? defaultString : otherString;

the built in blank? method means null or empty.
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