Conditional operator in Python?

[Rainer Deyke]

"Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> wrote in message
news:9a631k$3s8qb$1 at ID-11957.news.dfncis.de...
> Yes, it comes up.  Generally, except for short-circuiting, the solutions
> follow:
>
> >>> 1 and 2 or 3
> 2
> >>> 0 and 2 or 3
> 3

This is not equivalent in the general case.

0 ? 0 : 1    --> 0
0 and 0 or 1 --> 1


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