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[โ€“] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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:

def foo(a: list = None)
    a = a or []

works with and as well.