Hello Archard, On 25.07.2011, at 16:16, Archard Lias wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2:03 pm, Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> On 07/26/11 12:00 AM, Archard Lias wrote: >> >>> Hi, >> >>> Still I dont get how I am supposed to understand the pipe and its task/ >>> idea/influece on control flow, of: >>> return<statement> |<statement> >>> ?? >> >> It's simply a bitwise OR. >> >> -- >> Ian Collins > > Yes, but how does it get determined, which one actually gets returned? You do a Bitwise OR with numbers. Your statements are both returning numbers and those are combined with a bitwise OR. Combining b0001 with b0010 results in 0011 for example, you can see this very often done in C Code to set and check flags. Here is a gentle introduction: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/tips/Binary_Guide.aspxhttp://www.codeproject.com/KB/tips/Binary_Guide.aspx Cheers Oliver -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
