Ethan Furman wrote: > Billy Mays wrote: >> On 07/25/2011 10:16 AM, 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: >>>>> 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. >>> >>> Yes, but how does it get determined, which one actually gets returned? >> The return statement returns a single value from a function context. The >> pipe operator takes 2 values and bitwise ORs* them together. That >> result is then returned to the caller. > Just for completeness, if the actual line had been > > return <statement1> or <statement2> > > then Python would compute <statement1>, and if its boolean value was > True would return the computation of <statement1>, otherwise it would > compute <statement2> and return that. When 'or' is used, the first > truthy* item is return, or the last falsey* item if none evaluate to True.
Hence "*bitwise* OR" (as Billy wrote), _not_ logical OR (as you wrote), probably. -- PointedEars Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail. / Please do not Cc: me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
