2011/2/25 Merlijn van Deen <valhallasw@arctus.nl>

Of course, the
>>> 'a' if append else 'w'

is nicer, but has only been supported for python 2.5+.

This is my personal favourite, and I really would be glad to see 2.4 in the museum (together with all 2.x :-D)

An alternative, third, method, would be

>>> append = True
>>> ['w', 'a'][append]

'a'

This is great, I would never have thought of that myself! I learned something interesting today.