In a message of Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:40:58 +0200, Laura Creighton writes: >'Either' doesn't get used much unless you are heading for >'either x or y but not both'.
I don't think I was clear in expressing things this way. What I meant was, around here at any rate, 'either' is more often used for emphasis that you can have x or y (but not both). If there is no particular emphasis, the 'either' usually gets dropped. But it would not surprise me to find out that this is regional. Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list