python: bug or feature?

[Grant Edwards]

In article <m33dkchmcr.fsf at greebo.nodomain.de>, Bernhard Herzog wrote:

>> I see the smilie.  But to protect the innocent from being misled: :-) I was
>> talking about the _arrangement_ between them.  & | ~ ^ are cryptic when you
>> try to visually link them to (and) (or) (not) (xor).
>
>Well, ~ for not is pretty common in maths, I'd say. & for and is at
>least easy to remember, although ^ would look more like the symbol used
>in maths. | for or and ^ for xor is indeed not obvious at all.

The notation used in the Boolean algebra classes I took were

and:  raised dot or juxtaposition
 or:  "+"                                    
xor:  "+" w/ circle                          
not:  overbar

None of those are practicle, so Python adopted the operators
used in C.

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