Problem with printing statement when condition is false

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/4/2021 4:28 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:

> Quentin privately sent me 12 lines (which should have been posted here 
> instead), which can be reduced to the following 4 that exhibit his bug.
> 
> if a == b:
>      print('correct')
>      if a != b:
>          print('incorrect')
> 
> The bug is a != b will never be true when a == b and will not be tested 
> when a != b.  The fix is to use else.
> 
> if a == b:
>      print('correct')
> else:
>      print('incorrect')
> 
> This should not be reduced to a conditional expression since different 
> code follows the print statements in the actual example.

Quentin wrote me privately that this, applied to his code, solved his 
problem.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy