Can you please help me better understand what's going on?
Given that:

>>> bool(int(''))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

I would have thought that the or operator wouldn't work because, as I understand it, int('') isn't either True or False... can you enlighten me please?

Could anyone provide a little feedback into the thinking that resulted into this solution. Thanks

i must practice to master one liners like this!

best solution

hack

What a amzing trick .

I did't know about this triсk with or so I wrote pretty ugly one-liner. Amazing that learning something is possible even in such easy katas.

So simple and clever

We are not in 1960 and this is Python. There is no significant difference in speed on modern CPUs for this trivial task.

Use spoiler flag next time, please.

lool, I didn't know you can do that.

Ikr !!

my solution is tricky haha

SELECT TOP(5) in MSSQL is pretty straightforward, I like this syntax the most among all databases.