What's the equivalent of AndAlso (&&) and OrElse (||) logical operators in Python?

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4757...

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[short-circuiting]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-circ...

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[docs]: https://docs.python.org/2/reference/expr...

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Python already does this:

def foo():
    print ("foo")
    return True

def bar():
    print ("bar")
    return False


print (foo() or bar())
print ("")
print (bar() or foo())

Returns:

foo
True

bar
foo
True

There is no need for AndAlso or OrElse in Python, it evaluates boolean conditions lazily (docs).

ANSWER 2

Score 0

In python, you can use logic gates.

You can use either, for instance, and or &.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#bitwise-operations-on-integer-types