[Python-Dev] ANN: PEP 335: Overloadable Boolean Operators

[Greg Ewing]

> Consider also this:
>    x and 4 or 5
> which is of course a common idiom to workaround the lack of an 
> if-then-else expression.

Actually, I hope it isn't common, because it's flawed.
It doesn't always work properly even with current
Python semantics.

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