diff --git a/bench/ndarray/compare_getslice.py b/bench/ndarray/compare_getslice.py
index 3242f2b1..7438e035 100644
--- a/bench/ndarray/compare_getslice.py
+++ b/bench/ndarray/compare_getslice.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 import blosc2
 
-persistent = True if len(sys.argv) == 1 else False
+persistent = (len(sys.argv) == 1)
 if persistent:
     print("Testing the persistent backends")
 else: