[Python-Dev] vox populii illiterati (original) (raw)

Samuele Pedroni pedronis@bluewin.ch
Sun, 9 Feb 2003 17:54:24 +0100

From: "Neal Norwitz" <neal@metaslash.com>

One thing to note, many people are saying you can currently do:

cond and truevalue or falsevalue However, many have gotten it wrong, either by reversing the true/false value or by using something in the truevalue which may be false (sometimes even constants). pychecker tries to find this condition (when truevalue is a false constant), but it does a poor job of determining the idiom IIRC.

that's why the real one (if any) should be spelled

cond and! true_val or! false_val

<.5 wink>.

Sorry I couldn't resist.