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Message: [QUOTE="kretik, post: 3569949"] I'm sure this is a popular one, but after Googling for a while I couldn't figure out how to pull this off. Let's say I have this initializer on a class: def __init__(self, **params): I'd like to short-circuit the assignment of class field values passed in this dictionary to something like this: self.SomeField = \ params.has_key("mykey") ? params["mykey"] : None) Obviously I know this is not actual Python syntax, but what would be the equivalent? I'm trying to avoid this, basically: if params.has_key("mykey"): self.SomeField = params["mykey"] else: self.SomeField = None This is not a big deal of course, but I guess my main goal is to try and figure out of I'm not missing something more esoteric in the language that lets me do this. Thanks in advance. [/QUOTE]