Assigning a boolean value from an “if … in” statement in Python

Question

I am just starting on Python from a PHP background. I was wondering if there is a more elegant way in assigning a variable the result of an "if ... in" statement?

I currently do

is_holiday = False
if now_date in holidays:
    is_holiday = True

To me it looks like an unnecessary amount of code line or is this the absolute minimum and meets python style guides?

Answer 1

is_holiday = now_date in holidays

Answer 2

Use Conditional expressions :

is_holiday = True if now_date in holidays else False

or just is_holiday = now_date in holidays .