[Tutor] Strange operator

[Chad Crabtree]

I was perusing the wax sourcecode and ran accross this
        style |= styles.frame(kwargs)
        style |= styles.window(kwargs)

the pipe-equal operator is something I've never seen this before,
after 
a little searching I found this

Bitwise OR              *|*        1 if lhs bit OR rhs bit = 1

http://www.mhuffman.com/notes/language/py_intro.htm#LOGIC

which confuses me even more because I'm not sure how this is useful. 
Could someone please explain this?




		
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