Order of evaluation in conditionals

Karlo Lozovina _karlo_ at mosor.net
Mon Feb 25 16:41:20 EST 2008


Paul Hankin wrote:

> Did you try to find the answer to your question in the python
> reference manual? The relevant page is
> http://docs.python.org/ref/Booleans.html

Of course I first Googled (even Google Groups-ed) it, but I didn't notice
that in the results.
 
> To quote it:
> The expression 'x and y' first evaluates x; if x is false, its value
> is returned; otherwise, y is evaluated and the resulting value is
> returned.

Thanks (to both of you :>), that's it.

-- 
Karlo Lozovina -- Mosor



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