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

How about using a dict?

name = {(True, True, True): "first", (True, True, False): "second",
        (True, False, True): "third", (True, False, False): "fourth",
        (False, True, True): "fifth", (False, True, False): "sixth",
        (False, False, True): "seventh", (False, False, False): "eighth"}

print name[a,b,c] # prints "fifth" if a==False, b==True, c==True etc.