I tried erlang-ish [1|2] in python and something came out...

[Gary Herron]

process wrote:
> In erlang you can cons like this: [1|2]. i tried this in python and it
> didnt raise an error but i dont know what the result do
>   

In Python | is the logical bitwise-OR operator.   Look at the binary 
representation of the numbers to understand it.

Gary Herron

>   
>>>> [1|2]
>>>>         
> [3]
>   
>>>> [2|2]
>>>>         
> [2]
>   
>>>> a = [2|2]
>>>> a
>>>>         
> [2]
>   
>>>> [2|3]
>>>>         
> [3]
>   
>>>> [2|1]
>>>>         
> [3]
>   
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