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

[Nick the Gr33k]

On 15/6/2013 12:54 μμ, Lele Gaifax wrote:
> 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":

Are there cases that a variable and the variable's value cosidered to be 
2 different things?

>>>> mylist = ['foo']
>>>> emptylist = []
>>>> result = emptylist or mylist

result = mylist (since its a no-emoty list)

>>>> result.append('bar')
>>>> result is mylist
> True

Never seen the last statement before. What does that mean?
result is mylist ????


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