A certainl part of an if() structure never gets executed.

[Lele Gaifax]

Nick the Gr33k <support at superhost.gr> writes:

> On 15/6/2013 8:27 πμ, Larry Hudson wrote:
>> Also they do NOT return "a variable's truthy value", they return the
>> variable itself.
>
> No, as seen from my above examples, what is returned after the expr
> eval are the actual variables' values, which in turn are truthy, *not*
> the variable itself.

In the context we are talking about, "the variable itself" has the very
same meaning as "the actual variable value":

>>> mylist = ['foo']
>>> emptylist = []
>>> result = emptylist or mylist
>>> result.append('bar')
>>> result is mylist
True
>>> print(mylist)
['foo', 'bar']

ciao, lele.
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