Steve Holden wrote:
AJ Ostergaard wrote:
I'm not suggesting it's not operating as advertised - I'm suggesting the
'advertising' is slightly sguiffy if you catch my drift. I guess it's
just me that finds it slightly counter intuitive. Surely intuitively the
expression is "and" and therefore should always return a boolean?
...
You might think so, and it wouldn't be an entirely unreasonable thought,
but in practice it makes a lot of sense to retain the original value
where possible.
For example:
print name_from_form or default_name
or:
main(sys.arg[1:] or ['default', 'args'])
--Scott David Daniels
scott.dani...@acm.org
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