gh-100556: Improve clarity of `or` docs (GH-100589)

(cherry picked from commit b40dd71241f092d90c192ebff5d58cbd7e84dc52)

Co-authored-by: ram vikram singh <ramvikrams243@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 1563c4dff1386240c809b45dd935df86dd2ba5c6..608e15453be8ad772910585baa44093cb2948434 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ These are the Boolean operations, ordered by ascending priority:
 +-------------+---------------------------------+-------+
 | Operation   | Result                          | Notes |
 +=============+=================================+=======+
-| ``x or y``  | if *x* is false, then *y*, else | \(1)  |
-|             | *x*                             |       |
+| ``x or y``  | if *x* is true, then *x*, else  | \(1)  |
+|             | *y*                             |       |
 +-------------+---------------------------------+-------+
 | ``x and y`` | if *x* is false, then *x*, else | \(2)  |
 |             | *y*                             |       |