How to avoid writing request.GET.get() twice in order to print it?

Question

I come from a PHP background and would like to know if there\'s a way to do this in Python.

In PHP you can kill 2 birds with one stone like this:

Instead of

Answer 1

Simply try:

print(request.GET.get('q', ''))

which basically prints nothing if the first argument is not present (see dict.get).

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Alternative solution would be to use a conditional expression in Python:

 if  else 

but you'll end up repeating variable twice, for example:

print(request.GET.get('q') if request.GET.get('q') else '')

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For variable assignments in loops, check in here.