On Aug 3, 9:19 am, "Evan Klitzke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/2/07, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hello, > > > I discovered that boolean evaluation in Python is done "fast" > > (as soon as the condition is ok, the rest of the expression is ignored). > > > Is this standard behavior or is there a compiler switch to turn it on/off ? > > This is standard behavior in every language I've ever encountered. If > you are evaluating an and/or with side effects and you need both side > effects to occur, you can trivially write functions implementing this > behavior, e.g. >
If each operand is of type bool (or, more generally, isinstance(operand, int) is true), you could trivially use the & and | operators. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
