'Dive into Python' has a very memorable and interesting section on the exact behaviour of 'and' and 'or' in Python:
http://diveintopython.org/power_of_introspection/and_or.html > No: &, | (and ^, too) perform bitwise operations in Python, C and Java: "In complete evaluation ... both expressions are always evaluated. To obtain complete evaluation in Java, you use & rather than && ... and use | in place of ||" - Walter Savitch, Absolute Java 2nd ed. Although & IS the bitwise-AND operator in Java: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/operators.html I guess it's a matter of context. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
