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

This is:

1. definitely shorter
2. arguably Pythonic (pre-Python 2.5, which introduced the controversial X if Z else Y syntax)

3. questionably readable. With those caveats in mind, here it goes:

   bc = ("off","on")[c.page=="blog"]
   

EDIT: As per request, the generalized form is:

   result = (on_false, on_true)[condition]

Explanation: condition can be anything that evaluates to a Boolean. It is then treated as an integer since it is used to index the tuple: False == 0, True == 1, which then selects the right item from the tuple.