Yeah, but unlike the hack in the article, the more readable version of that code,

  "Thing 1" if some_boolean else "Thing 2"

is also almost twice as fast(775 vs 1340 ns, on my machine).

the problem with this expression is that it doesn't "short circuit". Both "Thing 1" and "Thing 2" (in this cases object, but the can be function calls) are evaluated before the "some_boolean" usage.

Short but I doubt this will be faster as noted.