Python elegant assignment based on True/False values

Question

I have a variable I want to set depending on the values in three booleans. The most straight-forward way is an if statement followed by a series of elifs:

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Answer 1

What about nested ifs - it means you don't have to check everything several times and reads clearer to me (although maybe not quite as clever as some of the other answers):

if a:
    if b:
        if c:
            name="first"
        else:
            name="second"
    else:
        if c:
            name="third"
        else:
            name="fourth"
else:
    if b:
        if c:
            name="fifth"
        else:
            name="sixth"
    else:
        if c:
            name="seventh"
        else:
            name="eighth"