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or
Combined from primary sources listed below.

In Operators§

See primary documentation in context for infix or

Same as infix ||, except with looser precedence.

Returns the first argument that evaluates to True in Boolean context, or otherwise the last argument, it short-circuits. Please note that or is easy to misuse. See traps.