On 06/04/2011 16:57, Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote:
mail = None
mail = mail or 7
mail
7
mail = None
mail = 7 or mail
mail
7
Here no matter the order iam writing the comparison it always return
the number.
why not the same here?
mail = None
mail = mail or ''
mail
''
mail = None
mail = '' or mail
mail
Why the or operator behaves differently with numbers than from
strings?
Please explain to me how it parses it with words.
Thank you.
See this for an explanation of Python truth value testing.
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html
Cheers.
Mark L.
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