Ah. I'm thinking of [1] from 2016, when there was a plan to add short-cut evaluation to short-cut comparisons. That avoids evaluating all the terms when not nec

Ah. I'm thinking of [1] from 2016, when there was a plan to add short-cut evaluation to short-cut comparisons. That avoids evaluating all the terms when not necessary. But that was deferred. [1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0535/ https://peps.python.org/pep-0535/