missing 'xor' Boolean operator

Emile van Sebille emile at fenx.com
Thu Jul 16 09:34:34 EDT 2009


On 7/16/2009 2:06 AM Jean-Michel Pichavant said...
> Ok then, why "or" does not return True, if the first element is 
> considered True ? Why returning the element itself. Any reason for that 
> ? Because it's confusing, maybe people used to that logic find it 
> obvious, but I really don't.

For example, I sometimes use it to set defaults:

daysInAdvance = int(inputVar) or 25

Emile




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