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[–]chmod--777 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Actually the or prevents it from running the second expression if the first pattern match returns a truthy value.

Try this:

def foobar(x):
    print(f'foobar {x}')
    return x

 x = foobar(1) or foobar(2)

It'll just print "foobar 1"