On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 at 08:57, Axel Reichert via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > Barry <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> writes: > > > I do not understand how xor(iterator) works. > > I thought xor takes exactly 2 args. > > See > > https://mathworld.wolfram.com/XOR.html > > for some background (I was not aware of any generalizations for more > than 2 arguments either). >
Generalization to more arguments usually means calculating parity - that is, it tells you whether you have an odd or even number of true results. Which means that short-circuiting is nonsensical. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
