Isn't bool __invert__ behaviour "strange"?

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Saizan wrote:

> Thanks for pointing that out ( the "!" is a misstyped "|"), 

Ah, I suspected so.

> my classes of discrete math have warped my mind with a mix of
> various non-C-style operators notation, I never use bitwise
> operation and this is just a bad day for thinking about things..

Hehe, I know those days ;)

> However I figured out one thing, Python's logic notation is
> readable and complete but not  compact. (which is fine for
> programming, and that's the aim, isn't it?)

Depends. IMHO, readability is fine for programming. In my C++ code,
it happens so often that I forget or overread a "!". And if I want
to understand my functions later on, my brain quite wrinkles
looking at parentheses, !s, &&s and ||s.

Regards,


Björn

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