Are you just referring to how Python uses the English and/or instead of the more common &&/||? I think what the user above you was talking about was Lua’s strange ternary syntax using and/or.
no, the linked table shows how python also returns the first non-falsey result of an a or b expression rather than just giving a boolean. it’s useful for initialising optional reference args:
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something = condition and result1 or result2in luaPython does that, too.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#boolean-operations-and-or-not
Are you just referring to how Python uses the English
and/orinstead of the more common&&/||? I think what the user above you was talking about was Lua’s strange ternary syntax usingand/or.no, the linked table shows how python also returns the first non-falsey result of an
a or bexpression rather than just giving a boolean. it’s useful for initialising optional reference args:works with
andas well.often I do a function called elvis XD with the next signature
elvis(condition, res1, res2)