Configuring an object via a dictionary

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2024-03-16 08:15:19 +0000, Barry via Python-list wrote:
> > On 15 Mar 2024, at 19:51, Thomas Passin via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
> > I've always like writing using the "or" form and have never gotten bit
> 
> I, on the other hand, had to fix a production problem that using “or” introducted.
> I avoid this idiom because it fails on falsy values.

Perl has a // operator (pronounced "err"), which works like || (or),
except that it tests whether the left side is defined (not None in
Python terms) instead of truthy. This still isn't bulletproof but I've
found it very handy.

        hp

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