Handling 3 operands in an expression without raising an exception

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 12:35:17 +0300, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:

> try:
>   ...
> except socket.gaierror as e:
>   # watch out, a composition of bad advice (on demand) city, host = (
>   ('city' in locals() or "blabla"),
>                  ('host' in locals() or "blablabla") )

Bad advice, and buggy as well. 

py> city = "New New York"
py> ('city' in locals() or "Blah blah")
True

Oh man, can you imagine Nikos trying to debug that?


-- 
Steven