diff --git a/Lib/http/server.py b/Lib/http/server.py
index 2ddef52beb0..4b249de7814 100644
--- a/Lib/http/server.py
+++ b/Lib/http/server.py
@@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
         path = path.split('?',1)[0]
         path = path.split('#',1)[0]
         # Don't forget explicit trailing slash when normalizing. Issue17324
-        trailing_slash = True if path.rstrip().endswith('/') else False
+        trailing_slash = path.rstrip().endswith('/')
         path = posixpath.normpath(urllib.parse.unquote(path))
         words = path.split('/')
         words = filter(None, words)