On Jul 15, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote:
On 7/15/2009 10:43 AM Jean-Michel Pichavant said...
Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
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Note that in Python A or B is in fact not equivalent to not(not A
and
not B).
Did I make twice the same obvious error ?
No -- but in the not(not... example it doesn't short-circuit.
No; like 'A or B', 'not (not A and not B)' does in fact short-circuit
if A is True. (The 'and' condition does not have to evaluate the
right operand when 'not A' is False.)
-Miles
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