Erik Bernoth <erik.bernoth <at> googlemail.com> writes: > > Isn't it strange, that this code runs (in a lazy language) for eternity?
Python is a not a lazy language. `and` and `or` are particular, they are language constructs (*), not operators, that's why they can decide whether or not to evaluate their second term. It's a feature, but this feature is not general to Python. (*) by this I mean they have similar status as, for example, `if` and `else` -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
