On Jul 15, 7:29 pm, Wayne Brehaut <wbreh...@mcsnet.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:47:41 -0700 (PDT), Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >I'd also guess that 'xor' would be much less used than 'and' or 'or',
> >but maybe that's just a reflection of the sort of code that I tend to
> >write.
>
> You're right about that!. It's used everywhere in:
> [snip examples and references]
Those examples are (almost) all about the *bitwise* xor operator,
which exists in Python ('^') and, as you point out, has no shortage of
good uses. The discussion was about a *logical* xor, to parallel the
existing 'and' and 'or' operators.
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