On Monday 06 August 2007, Flavio wrote: > So My question is: Why has this been implemented in this way? I can > see this confusing many newbies...
I did not implement this, so I cannot say, but it does have useful
side-effects, for example:
x = A or B
is equivalent to:
if A:
x = A
else:
x = B
also, in python implementations without the (y if x else z) syntax, you can
use (x and y or z) with nearly the same result*. Also, this implementation of
and/or might well be faster ;-)
*: this doesn't work the same if y is a false value; (x and [y] or [z])[0] is
less readable, but works for all y
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