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Puzzle 14: Explanation

Puzzle 14: Explanation

We’ll go over the concept of short-circuit operators in Python and why the code does not raise an exception.

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Python 3.8
def div(a, b):
    return a / b
if div(1, 2) > 0 or div(1, 0) > 0:
    print('OK')
else:
    print('oopsie')

Explanation

Most people expect this code to raise ZeroDivisionError due to div(1, 0). If we call div(1, 0) by itself, we’ll see that exception. Still, the logic ...