Re: [Gnumed-devel] That killed it stone dead

[sjtan]

> Python does not evaluate the right side of an "or"
> if the left is true (similarly it does not evaluate the right of "and"
> if the left is false)
neither does C or java with the && and ||  operators (short-circuit 
operators) , but apparently
& and | are fully-evaluated operators, but are rarely needed in 
conditional execution ( got this from a textbook).
BTW - has Richard got access to the html documentation for python ? I 
found the tutorial there really helpful.
 Also browsing other peoples python code helps
( I learnt stuff from looking at Ian's short-cut code, and I saw an 
alternative to using the filter() list utility function
when I looked at bittorrent code ( but I don't pretend to understand any 
of it) .
The pycommon code is also a good source for learning.