On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 10:38:34 AM UTC+12, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> >> There is no short-cut evaluation when constructing tuples and lists. > > I'm not sure how that would make difference in these examples. The > three parts are independent - the one place where short-circuiting is > important is indeed short-circuited.
That often is not the case, e.g. <https://github.com/ldo/qahirah/blob/master/qahirah.py>: assert \ ( len(self.points) == 0 or not self.points[0].off and (closed or not self.points[-1].off) ) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
