compound conditional statements

[Jeremy Yallop]

beliavsky at aol.com wrote:
> If I have code 
>
> if (aa or bb): print "true", 
>
> does Python evaluate aa and bb in any particular order? 

Yes.  `aa' is evaluated first.  If it is true, `bb' is not evaluated
and the value of `aa' is the value of the expreesion.  If `aa' is
false, the value of `bb' is the value of the expression.

> Can I assume that if aa is true, bb will not be evaluated?

Yes.

Jeremy.