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Exercise

Assigning variables with Boolean operators

You can use the fact that and and or are short-circuit operators to assign objects to variables in intelligent ways. Pretend that you are deciding what actions you should take with a client's account based on what they entered in a web-form. Unfortunately, they could submit the form with this field empty, so you need to set a default action just in case. The supplied variable input_action has the contents submitted by the client. The supplied variable is_trading_day is True if today is a day that trades are possible.

Instructions

100 XP
  • If your client entered an action, assign it to the variable action. If they entered nothing, use the default action "Hold".
  • Assign the action to the variable do_action if trades can be done today, otherwise assign it as False.
  • Print the action that should be done.