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

Maybe not much better, but how about

results = ['first', 'second', 'third', 'fourth', 
           'fifth', 'sixth', 'seventh', 'eighth']
name = results[((not a) << 2) + ((not b) << 1) + (not c)]