[Python-Dev] ANN: PEP 335: Overloadable Boolean Operators (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Sep 16 03:46:52 CEST 2004

Consider also this: x and 4 or 5 which is of course a common idiom to workaround the lack of an if-then-else expression.

Actually, I hope it isn't common, because it's flawed. It doesn't always work properly even with current Python semantics.

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