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Title: Strange behavior with ternary operator · Issue #493 · boostorg/python · GitHub

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Description: I noticed strange behavior while trying to use ternary operator with boost::python::dict and list. I'm trying to do something like this using py = boost::python; py::dict globals; py::dict dict; py::list list; bool condition = true; glob...

Open Graph Description: I noticed strange behavior while trying to use ternary operator with boost::python::dict and list. I'm trying to do something like this using py = boost::python; py::dict globals; py::dict dict; py...

X Description: I noticed strange behavior while trying to use ternary operator with boost::python::dict and list. I'm trying to do something like this using py = boost::python; py::dict globals; py::dict dict...

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