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[Lele Gaifax]

Ferrous Cranus <nikos at superhost.gr> writes:

> host =  gethostbyaddr(....) or "UnResolved"
>
> This will return the first argument that define the evaluation as
> being true or untrue.
>
> if function returns false the the 2nd argument.
> Nut if the function gives an exception will the condition return the
> 2nd argument or will the program fail?
>
> I was udner the impression that i could avoid error handling  inside
> try/excepts by utilizing "or".

No, you had the wrong impression. Why don't you simply invoke the Python
interpreter and try things out with that??

    >>> a = 1/0 or 100
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    ZeroDivisionError: division by zero
    >>> a
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    NameError: name 'a' is not defined
    >>> a = 0/1 or 100
    >>> a
    100
    >>>

ciao, lele.
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