xor operator?

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Fri Jan 26 10:56:00 EST 2001


In article <mailman.980517875.10931.python-list at python.org>,
Thomas Wouters  <thomas at xs4all.net> wrote:
>
>What construction do you need the boolean xor operation for ? Isn't it more
>obvious to use an if/elif/else contstruction ?

In my case, it was to ensure that one-and-only-one variable was set in a
Token class.  Okay, so it was a little cutesy and not particularly
generalizable, but it was the most compact way of representing the
actual control flow at that point.
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