On 2008-12-14, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Let me just point out that unsuspecting people (like me) might rely on > the whole expression to be evaluated and rely on exceptions being > raised if needed.
Short circuit evaluation of booleans is very common (and has been for decades), so I don't know why people would expect something else. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list