Explain string boolean expression

[Michal Wallace]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Serg wrote:

> Explain please what exactly
> "" or "Some" or "abbyds"

Well, if you type it into the python prompt, you'd see
it prints "Some"... :)

"" is a false value, "Some" and "abbyds" are true values.

So it's the same as saying:

(false) or (something true) or (something else true)

And if you look at the order of operations, this compares
the first two, returns "something true" and forgets about
the the final value.

Cheers,

- Michal   http://www.sabren.net/   sabren at manifestation.com 
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