[Tutor] Conditional Statement without if statement?

[Alan Gauld]

On 08/02/2022 10:35, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:

> The only thing to remember after that is that Python returns
> the actual values from a boolean comparison.
> 
> Thus
> 
> x = 42 or 66
> 
> x will have the value 66

Oops! And that demonstrates why you shouldn't use it
as a conditional statement! :-)

I actually had a much longer answer typed out with
multiple examples from the >>> prompt but then decided
I was overcomplicating things so used this simpler but
untested example. sigh.

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