[issue43378] Pattern Matching section in tutorial refers to | as or

Change by Raymond Hettinger : -- nosy: +Daniel Moisset, brandtbucher, gvanrossum, willingc ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-li

[issue43378] Pattern Matching section in tutorial refers to | as or

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Another other thought, PEP 634 defines "|" as being an "or-pattern", so it part of the spec: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0634/#or-patterns -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue43378] Pattern Matching section in tutorial refers to | as or

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: This seems fine to me. In pattern matching, it has both the meaning and pronunciation of "or": case "this" | "that": ... It has similar mean in the re module: r'abc|def' And it is also used the same way in typing: s: list | tuple We've al

[issue43378] Pattern Matching section in tutorial refers to | as or

New submission from Luciano Ramalho : Section 4.6. "match Statements" of the Python 3.10 tutorial says: """ You can combine several literals in a single pattern using | (“or”): """ For someone just learning Python, this may suggest that | is always "or", when in fact it is a bitwise operator (