On Jul 25, 4:35 pm, Oliver Bestwalter <oli...@bestwalter.de> wrote: > Hello Archard, > > On 25.07.2011, at 16:16, Archard Lias wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Jul 25, 2:03 pm, Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> On 07/26/11 12:00 AM, Archard Lias wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> Still I dont get how I am supposed to understand the pipe and its task/ > >>> idea/influece on control flow, of: > >>> return<statement> |<statement> > >>> ?? > > >> It's simply a bitwise OR. > > >> -- > >> Ian Collins > > > Yes, but how does it get determined, which one actually gets returned? > > You do a Bitwise OR with numbers. Your statements are both returning numbers > and those are combined with a bitwise OR. Combining b0001 with b0010 results > in 0011 for example, you can see this very often done in C Code to set and > check flags. Here is a gentle introduction: > > http://www.codeproject.com/KB/tips/Binary_Guide.aspxhttp://www.codepr... > > Cheers > Oliver
Oh!, never gave it a thought about the fact that what I was looking at where flags... Thank you very much for the link, is a great introduction to something I had not known before. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
