Logical Operators

and, or, not — with short-circuit evaluation that returns one of the operands.

Beginner

if sensor and sensor.ready: ...      # sensor.ready isn't evaluated if sensor is None
name = user_input or "anonymous"     # 'or' returns the first truthy value
not True                             # False

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