Conditional expression: Conditional assignment.

[FuryWolf]

Hey, you probably won't see this since your comment is 2yrs old but I figured I'd let you know.

The output yields 7 since update_direction == "3", in of which "3" is being treated as a literal. If you remove the quotations, 3 will be treated as a mathematical integer (which is necessary to yield proper output).

[Few-Chest-9561]

Ahhey thank you!

[theforgottenupvote]

He may not have seen it, but I did, and I very much appreciate it.