On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 1:22 PM MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> policy?.mangle_from_ ?? True
> True (??? since lhs is None?)
>
No, it's not 'policy.mangle_from_' that could be None, it's 'policy'
that could be None (i.e. there's no policy).

In my example, there is a policy, and the value of policy.mangle_from_ is set to None.  Thus the above should be equivalent to this

>>> None ?? True
True

Unless, of course, I completely misunderstand the way the ?? operator works.  This is not the same as the original code, they are not equivalent.