Strange behavior with ternary operator

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4/5
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Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
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Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
api, backend

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Reproduce the provided C++ Boost.Python snippet and inspect the resulting Python type for both condition values. Determine whether the ternary assignment to globals is expected behavior or a Boost.Python bug; done means documenting the explanation or identifying the relevant behavior to fix.

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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;
globals["mol"] = condition ? dict : list;
py::exec("print(type(mol))", globals);

What I expected: <class 'list'> or <class 'dict'>
What I got: <class 'Boost.Python.function'>

Is it expected behavior? Then can someone explain me why?
Or this is a bug?

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