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[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Are you just referring to how Python uses the English and/or instead of the more common &&/||? I think what the user above you was talking about was Lua's strange ternary syntax using and/or.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

no, the linked table shows how python also returns the first non-falsey result of an a or b expression rather than just giving a boolean. it's useful for initialising optional reference args:

def foo(a: list = None)
    a = a or []

works with and as well.

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