Shorter, more pythonic way of writing an if statement

Question

I have this

bc = \'off\'

if c.page == \'blog\':
    bc = \'on\'

print(bc)

Is there a more pythonic (and/or shorter) way of writing this in Pyth

Answer 1

Shortest one should be:

bc = 'on' if c.page=='blog' else 'off'

Generally this might look a bit confusing, so you should only use it when it is clear what it means. Don't use it for big boolean clauses, since it begins to look ugly fast.