[Tutor] short circuiting

Hi I've read that the builtin all() function stops evaluating as soon as it hits a false item, meaning that items after the first false one are not evaluated. I was wondering if someone could give an example of where all()'s short circuiting is of consequence, akin to: False and produces_side_eff

[Tutor] trying to figure out what this means

when you are doing print these two characters keep showing up in this book "%s" % What do they do? here is example of complete command. print "%s" % last_names[-2] Thank you, Dave ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailma