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Better or doc wording #100556

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pochmann opened this issue Dec 27, 2022 · 0 comments
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Better or doc wording #100556

pochmann opened this issue Dec 27, 2022 · 0 comments
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pochmann commented Dec 27, 2022 •
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x or y is documented as:

if x is false, then y, else x

That looks unnatural/backwards/negated to me. It's not how I think of it. I suggest:

if x is true, then x, else y

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gh-100556: Improve clarity of or docs (#100589)
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pythongh-100556: Improve clarity of or docs (pythonGH-100589)
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pythongh-100556: Improve clarity of or docs (pythonGH-100589)
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Co-authored-by: ram vikram singh <[email protected]>
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gh-100556: Improve clarity of or docs (GH-100589)
444ec74 
(cherry picked from commit b40dd71)

Co-authored-by: ram vikram singh <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <[email protected]>
miss-islington added a commit that referenced this issue Feb 21, 2023
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gh-100556: Improve clarity of or docs (GH-100589)
a94f3ad 
(cherry picked from commit b40dd71)

Co-authored-by: ram vikram singh <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <[email protected]>
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Merge branch 'main' into lockfreecp
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* main: (76 commits)
  Fix syntax error in struct doc example (python#102160)
  pythongh-99108: Import MD5 and SHA1 from HACL* (python#102089)
  pythonGH-101777: `queue.rst`: use 2 spaces after a period to be consistent. (python#102143)
  Few coverage nitpicks for the cmath module (python#102067)
  pythonGH-100982: Restrict `FOR_ITER_RANGE` to a single instruction to allow instrumentation. (pythonGH-101985)
  pythongh-102135: Update turtle docs to rename wikipedia demo to rosette (python#102137)
  pythongh-99942: python.pc on android/cygwin should link to libpython per configure.ac (pythonGH-100356)
  pythongh-95672 fix typo SkitTest to SkipTest (pythongh-102119)
  pythongh-101936: Update the default value of fp from io.StringIO to io.BytesIO (pythongh-102100)
  pythongh-102008: simplify test_except_star by using sys.exception() instead of sys.exc_info() (python#102009)
  pythongh-101903: Remove obsolete undefs for previously removed macros Py_EnterRecursiveCall and Py_LeaveRecursiveCall (python#101923)
  pythongh-100556: Improve clarity of `or` docs (python#100589)
  pythongh-101777: Make `PriorityQueue` docs slightly clearer (python#102026)
  pythongh-101965: Fix usage of Py_EnterRecursiveCall return value in _bisectmodule.c (pythonGH-101966)
  pythongh-101578: Amend exception docs (python#102057)
  pythongh-101961 fileinput.hookcompressed should not set the encoding value for the binary mode (pythongh-102068)
  pythongh-102056: Fix a few bugs in error handling of exception printing code (python#102078)
  pythongh-102011: use sys.exception() instead of sys.exc_info() in docs where possible (python#102012)
  pythongh-101566: Sync with zipp 3.14. (pythonGH-102018)
  pythonGH-99818: improve the documentation for zipfile.Path and Traversable (pythonGH-101589)
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