Python use the print() function in a ternary conditional operator?

Question

I don't understand why this fails

print('Yes') if True else print('No')
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    print('Yes') if True else print('No')
                                  ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

print('Yes') if True == False else print('No')
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    print('Yes') if True == False else print('No')
                                           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

But this does work

print('Yes') if True else True
Yes

Answer 1

It's because in python 2, when you write:

print('Yes') if True else True

It actually is

print(('Yes') if True else True)

So you can write :

print('Yes') if True else ('No')

Or, a bit more beautifully

print('Yes' if True else 'No')

It means that you can only use ternary operations on the "argument" of print in python2.